Colliculus Quotes & Sayings

He looked at the boy. You wont shoot, he said. That's what you think. You aint got but two shells. Maybe just one. And they'll hear the shot. Yes they will. But you wont. How do you figure that? Because the bullet travels faster than sound. It will be in your brain before you can hear it. To hear it you will need a frontal lobe and things with names like colliculus and temporal gyrus and you wont have them anymore. They'll just be soup. — Cormac McCarthy

Songs are often written by people who are witnesses to history, — George Nethercutt

Twilight ...
Say, who you are !!
The dusk before the night
Or the dawn before the light
(Page 73) — Neena Verma

The depth of your wardrobe dazzles the mind. Ralph Lauren weeps. — Dean Koontz

If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments — G.K. Chesterton

Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us as those that are not wholly wrong, as no watches so effectively deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right. — Charles Caleb Colton

I answered that I was sure, and he asked me again, and this time I understood his concern. 'I'm not embarrassed!' I said, or at least tried to say, before recalling that embarazada means something entirely different to 'embarrassed' and that I'd just wailed at the doctor that I wasn't pregnant, something his medical training had presumably made evident to him. — Peter Allison

Perfectionism is the enemy of the idea muscle. Perfectionism is your brain trying to protect you from harm - from coming up with an idea that is embarrassing and stupid and could cause you to suffer pain. — James Altucher

By the anxieties and worries of this life Satan tries to dull man's heart and make a dwelling for himself there. — Francis Of Assisi

Give me another chance at this. We're so great together. I want you. I've always wanted you. — T. Torrest

How to forgive the world for its beauty, which merely disguises its ugliness; for its gentleness, which merely cloaks its cruelty; for its illusion of continuity, seamlessly, as the night follows the day, so to speak- whereas in reality life is a series of brutal raptures, falling upon your defenseless hands, like the blows of a woodman's axe? — Salman Rushdie

showing Carla and Erik with Father. It had been taken a couple of years ago on a sunny day at the beach — Ken Follett

If you didn't earn your salvation how are you going to un-earn it? — Timothy Keller

I don't know if anything in nature ever grows exactly the same, but they are always exactly as the way it should be, perfectly itself. — Bob Ross

In order for the wheel to turn, for life to be lived, impurities are needed, and the impurities of impurities in the soil, too, as is known, if it is to be fertile. Dissension, diversity, the grain of salt and mustard are needed: Fascism does not want them, forbids them, and that's why you're not a Fascist; it wants everybody to be the same, and you are not. But immaculate virtue does not exist either, or if it exists it is detestable. — Primo Levi

We had to move forward after the war and see the realities. — Joschka Fischer