Crimsons Jaw Quotes & Sayings

Life is rife with frustrations, jealousies and, on occasion, an overwhelming sense of its injustices, but it's a big mistake to let such negative sentiments rule our lives and dictate choices. — Mariella Frostrup

I feel the terror of idleness, like a red thirst. Death isn't just an idea. — Mary Oliver

One hundred thirty-seven is the inverse of something called the fine-structure constant ... The most remarkable thing about this remarkable number is that it is dimension-free ... Werner Heisenberg once proclaimed that all the quandaries of quantum mechanics would shrivel up when 137 was finally explained. — Leon M. Lederman

The real triumph of the state occurs when its subjects refer to it as "we," like football fans talking about the home team. — Joseph Sobran

In those days the best painkiller was ice; it wasn't addictive and it was particularly effective if you poured some whiskey over it. — George Burns

John Kerry will undergo surgery to repair his right shoulder. He originally hurt it when he suddenly switched positions on Iraq. — Craig Kilborn

When you put a big budget into a film, it doesn't necessarily mean it will be a better picture, but it does help in creating new images on the screen. — Ray Harryhausen

I intended that when the curtain went up the scene should confront the public like the exaggerating mirror in the stories of Madame Leprince de Beaumont, in which the depraved saw themselves with dragons' bodies, or bulls' horns, or whatever corresponded to their particular vice. It is not surprising that the public should have been aghast at the sight of its other self, which it had never before been shown completely. This ignoble other-self, as Monsieur Catulle Mendes has excellently said, is composed "of eternal human imbecility, eternal lust, eternal gluttony, the vileness of instinct magnified into tyranny; of the sense of decency, the virtues, the patriotism & the ideals peculiar to those who have just eaten their fill." Really, these are hardly the constituents for an amusing play, & the masks demonstrate that the comedy must at the most be the macabre comedy of an English clown, or of a Dance of Death. — Alfred Jarry

Why are infectious disease doctors the best ones to date? They are the most cultured and sensitive. — Peter Rogers

Sometimes the complexities of the mind can be intriguing, but the dark side of one's thoughts can create its own phobias. — Daniel "Z" Hastings

The Goddess is not just the female version of God. She represents a different concept. — Merlin Stone

For those of us who spent our careers competing with David Broder, the hardest thing to abide was the inevitable comparison. If someone said Jack Germond - or Jules Witcover or Walter Mears or whoever - 'is a pretty good political reporter,' the default response would be, 'but he's no David Broder.' — Jack Germond

Ordinary people like you and me have the chance to make a tremendous difference for mothers and their children worldwide — Meg Ryan