Ctesibius Alarm Quotes & Sayings

Look at the Chandra Levy case. It's become a Star Chamber. The major networks, the cable networks, they're being prosecutors. They're judges and jurors and executioners. Well, c'mon, that's ridiculous. But they're doing it. — Ray Bradbury

He took it out like a sprinter, and brought it home like a distance swimmer. — Jennifer Lane

The whole World was for sale to anyone who had Yen or was willing to perform fellatio. — Kurt Vonnegut

...occasionally I like carrying raw steel to remind myself of an important lesson.
The blade's an extension of the hand, the agent--no pun intended--of my will. Most people understand this immediately of edged weapons...
The trick--and few are subtle or sophisticated enough to master it--is to see that this is equally true... by implication, of all machines. — L. Neil Smith

When the soul-penetrating pathos she was beaming at me failed to prevent me from continuing to put things in boxes, the helper dog became increasingly alarmed. Over the ensuing few days, she slowly descended into psychological chaos. The simple dog remained unfazed. — Allie Brosh

O World, try to deceive someone else. Are you trying to tempt me or attract me? No way! I divorce you irrevocably. Your time is short and you are insignificant. Alas! The provision is little, the journey is long and the way is lonely. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

He never sought to stem the current. [Of a statesman who accommodates his views to public opinion.] — Juvenal

A lot of writers, because they don't understand actors, feel like, in order to be better at their performance, they have to change the words around a lot. — Giovanni Ribisi

There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live. — Abraham Joshua Heschel

I would give the people of America to their first opportunity to elect a president who doesn't belong to either party since George Washington. — Jesse Ventura

Truth, like climate, is common property. — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

More important than any one new application is the new 'materials' concept itself. It marks a shift from concern with substances to concern with structures, a shift from artisan to scientist as man's artificer, a shift from chemistry to physics as the basic discipline, and a shift, above all, from the concrete experience of the workshop to abstract mathematics, a shift from starting with what nature provides to what man wants to accomplish.
-The Age of Discontinuity, 1969 — Peter F. Drucker

Basketball is my passion, and I love it, and I love to see my players succeed. I'm here for them and my children. That's my passion. — Rick Pitino

The men in bars, who explain every dark secret of this world, Tito, have you noticed, no secret requires more than three drinks to explain. Who killed the Kennedys? Three drinks. America's real motive in Iraq? Three drinks. The three-drink answers can never contain the truth. The — William Gibson

Why make art ? To quiet the mind thus making it susceptible to divine influences. — John Cage