Flagpoles For Sale Quotes & Sayings

Cept for Ben, who I can't describe much further without seeming soft and stupid and like a boy, so I won't, just to say that I never knew my pa, but if you woke up one day and had a choice of picking one from a selecshun, if someone said, here, then, boy, pick who you want, then Ben wouldn't be the worst choice you could make that morning. — Patrick Ness

I embrace technology and I just think that in 1984 when James Cameron wrote about the technology, everyone thought he was totally way out there and it was science fiction. Now it's almost reality what he talked about. The machines have taken over, except they have not become self-aware, like in Terminator. So this is really one thing that we have to watch out for, but I think technology is good. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

It's nice not to have to live a double life. — Lance Bass

I think Kafka was right when he said that for a modern, secular, nonreligious man, state bureaucracy is the only remaining contact with the dimension of the divine; the impenetrable omnipotence of bureaucracy harbors is divine enjoyment. It is the performance of its very purposelessness that generates an intense enjoyment, ready to reproduce itself forever. — Slavoj Zizek

It was a time of uncommon possibility and freedom, when Detroit created wondrous and lasting things. But life can be luminescent when it is most vulnerable. — David Maraniss

You realize that there's no point in doing anything if nobody's watching. — Chuck Palahniuk

An institution has to decide, and it's not just an option, it's a responsibility, how much diversity can be tolerated. — Albert Mohler

Percy'd heard stories about amputees who had phantom pains where their missing legs
and arms used to be. That's how his mind
felt - like his missing memories were aching. — Rick Riordan

I never really noticed it any more, in the way that one often ignores familiar things, like seat cushions or loved ones. — John Boyne

The secret is: a catapult is a joy in it self ... freude an sich ... it doesn't need a reason, it IS the reason. — Frances Winkler

I felt him sigh against me. "It was. But it didn't mean anything. Please don't use her to keep me at a distance" ... — R.K. Lilley

The only time we suffer is when we believe a thought that argues with what is. When the mind is perfectly clear, what is is what we want. — Byron Katie

When people are away from home, they do things they might not normally do. — Patrick Swayze