Elizur Holyoke Quotes & Sayings

I'm always surprised by things that happen to my work. — Eric Bogosian

My family was mostly unemployed working class. — Noam Chomsky

Obviously the first thing we need to do is repeal "Obamacare." That's one entitlement that we can get rid of. And that's a couple trillion dollars in spending over the next 10 years. — Rick Santorum

Brand new Beretta, can't wait to let it go. — Drake

It took time for the church to come to terms with the ignominy of the cross. Church fathers forbade its depiction in art until the reign of the Roman emperor Constantine ... Now, though, the symbol is everywhere: artists beat gold into the shape of the Roman execution device, baseball players cross themselves before batting, and cancy confectioners even make chocolate crosses for the faithful to eat during Holy Week. Strange as it may seem, Christianity has become a religion of the cross
the gallows, the electric chair, the gas chamber, in modern terms. — Philip Yancey

Intimacy blossoms anytime you let down your socially acceptable mask. — Deepak Chopra

Once you realise you're never going to be a somebody, you have to kid yourself that being a nobody can still be interesting. — Ian Pattison

I do not know how to distinguish between waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are? — Henry David Thoreau

(Decadent style) is ingenious, complicated, learned, full of shades of meaning and research, always pushing further the limits of language ... forcing itself to express in thought that which is most ineffable, and in form the vaguest and most fleeting contours; listening that it may translate them to the subtle confidences of the neuropath, to the avowals of aging and depraved passion, and to the singular hallucinations of the fixed idea verging on madness ... In opposition to the classic style, it admits of shading, and these shadows teem and swarm with the larvae of superstitions, the haggard phantoms of insomnia, nocturnal terrors, remorse which starts and turns back at the slightest noise, monstrous dreams stayed only by impotence, obscure phantasies at which daylight would stand amazed, and all that the soul conceals of the dark, the unformed, and the vaguely horrible, in its deepest and furthest recesses. — Theophile Gautier

A crafty nightrunner died of late,
And found himself at Bilairy's Gate.
He stood outside and refused to knock
Because he meant to pick the lock. — Lynn Flewelling

You've got to love what's lovable, and hate what's hateable. It takes brains to see the difference. — Robert Frost

I find motivation anytime I need it, no matter how bad I'm hurting I can push through anything — Carlos Condit

I may just start randomly hitting you over the head with shit. I'm liking concussed Paige. — Angela Graham

Our uniquely human capacity for sorrow at the deaths of those who are strangers to us is built on an evolutionary substrate. Our own ways of mourning may be unique, but the human capacity to grieve deeply is something we share with other animals. — Scientific American Editors

Good morrow, fair ones; pray you, if you know,
Where in the purlieus of this forest stands
A sheep-cote fenc'd about with olive trees? — William Shakespeare