Darrasnootje Quotes & Sayings

[She] was horribly in love with that man. You can't go on forever thinking about nothing at all, and he had a nice face and that laugh, and what harm was there in it since she could hardly even bring herself to look at him. — Marilynne Robinson

Technical advisor. Since you know our enemies so well, we're going to pick your brain. (Jericho)
I'll tell you what you want to know. There's no need to torture me for it. (Asmodeus)
Pick your brain is an idiomatic expression, Asmodeus. It means we'll have you tell us things. We're not actually going in there to mess with your head. (Delphine)
Oh, thank the Source. I can't stand it when someone opens my skull. It really hurts. (Asmodeus) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

A Set Back is only a Set Up for a Come Up! — Antwan 'Ant' Bank$

In 1788, the Chimney Sweepers Act was passed in Parliament, preventing master sweeps from employing children under eight (children over eight were allowed to be apprenticed). — Siddhartha Mukherjee

Without war the lower elements of mankind have increased all out of proportion. They threaten the educated few, those with scientific knowledge and training, the ones equipped to direct society. They have no regard for science or a scientific society, based on reason. And this Movement seeks to aid and abet them. Only when scientists are in full control can the - — Philip K. Dick

Beauty, business, blogs, & bullshit...never a dull conversation with your friends you have tons in common with. — April Mae Monterrosa

My first solo was in church when I was five. — Suzy Bogguss

It is simply the view, and a view I think shared by most members of the party, that it is very difficult to have a leader that does not command the support of the parliamentary party. — Francis Maude

It is unthinkable to have a British countryside that doesn't have actual functioning farmers riding tractors, cows in fields, things like that. — Bill Bryson

To Harmodius, descended from the ancient Harmodius, when he reviled Iphicrates [a shoemaker's son] for his mean birth, "My nobility," said he, "begins in me, but yours ends in you. — Plutarch

I have a black belt in chutzpah. I was born with it. Some people, like some of the women I know, have a black belt in spending. They were born with that. But what they gave me was a black belt in chutzpah. — Charlie Munger

The trick is remembering that change is as easy as you make it. The trick is remembering that you are the boss of you. — A.S. King

The man lived like a monk.
And made love like a sinner. — Cindy Gerard