Disconcerting Def Quotes & Sayings

But even they it was as though the time that the clock measured was not put to any use. For by far the majority of Europe's population, namely those living outside of the towns -- and, strictly speaking, also for those living in them -- the day began at dawn and ended with the onset of darkness, and work was regulated by the changing of the seasons.
What fascinated people about he measurement of time was not time itself, because that was dictated by other factors. What fascinated them was the clock. — Peter Hoeg

The kid who is scared is the one the bullies go after. I used to get beat up pretty badly. — Robert M. Pirsig

Our practice is not to clear up the mystery. It is to make the mystery clear. — Robert Aitken

I'm craving more soul, I'm craving more truth, I'm craving more socially - just people that are aware of what's going on in the world. — John Legend

I cannot bear the language TV chefs use - they don't seem able to look at a plate of vegetables without accusing it of sexual activity. — Ann Widdecombe

If Syria collapses completely, the United States and the world would have to consider who, and what, fills the vacuum. — Richard Engel

One's appreciation of meager comforts, it seems, depends on what misery one has gone through before getting them. — Alice Munro

'Swingers' was a little closer to what my real experience was. 'Crazy Eyes,' whoever's experience that is, I'm telling you what, that was one heck of a ride. — Jake Busey

We feel cold, but we don't mind it, because we will not come to harm. And if we wrapped up against the cold, we wouldn't feel other things, like the bright tingle of the stars, or the music of the aurora, or best of all the silky feeling of moonlight on our skin. It's worth being cold for that. — Philip Pullman

I was a James Brown junkie as a kid. — L.A. Reid

Be Lion in drawing a Line — Zeeshan Ahmed