Dex To Maximus Quotes & Sayings

When life takes the wind out of your sails, it is to test you at the oars. — Robert Breault

Charles Evans Hughes, former Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, said: "Men do not die from overwork. They die from dissipation and worry." Yes, from dissipation of their energies - and worry because they never seem to get their work done. — Dale Carnegie

I wondered if the owners would mind if I murdered someone in their front yard. A big red-headed someone. He was so full of shit, he'd make fantastic fertilizer for their garden — Karina Halle

Sleep has no place it can call its own. — Bram Stoker

Don't call me 'gentleman'. I work for a livin'. — Tamora Pierce

The same piece of music alters at each hearing. But oh, the need to repeat and repeat and repeat unchanged the sexual experience. — Ned Rorem

Because we're going to stay here a little while and calm down until I've learned your names. Light my pipe, someone! — Tove Jansson

So: Police are bureaucrats with weapons. If you think about it, this is a really ingenious trick. Because when most of think about police, we do not think of them as enforcing regulation. We think of them as fighting crime, and when we think of "crime," the kind of crime we have in our minds in violent crime. Even though, in fact, what police mostly do is exactly the opposite: they bring the threat of force to bear on situations that would otherwise have nothing to do with it. — David Graeber

The devotion of the greatest is to encounter risk and danger, and play dice for death. — Friedrich Nietzsche

A linguist deaf to the poetic functions of language and a literary scholar indifferent to linguistics are equally flagrant anachronisms. — Roman Jakobson