Flossed Teeth Quotes & Sayings

Does that mean that religious texts are worthless as guides to ethics? Of course not. They are magnificent sources of insight into human nature, and into the possibilities of ethical codes. Just as we should not be surprised to discover that ancient folk medicine has a great deal to teach modern hightech medicine, we should not be surprised if we find that these great religious texts hold versions of the very best ethical systems any human culture will ever devise. But, like folk medicine, we should test it all carefully, and take nothing whatever on faith. — Daniel C. Dennett

Advancing bourgeois society liquidates memory, time, recollection as irrational leftovers of the past. — Theodor Adorno

Why people want stuff which make them transcendent or transcendence?? And then they just destroy it?? Why Humanity wants something and then destroy it?? THere are a lot of examples one of them is the film "Transcendence — Deyth Banger

Everyone needs fudge, Hildy. It's how God helps us cope. — Joan Bauer

Men are often (though not always) the pursuers for sex, just like women are often (though not always) the pursuers for conversation. — Harriet Lerner

I'm a creep. I'm a weirdo. What the hell am I doing here? I don't belong here. — Thom Yorke

Juliet and Romeo be damned, you can't be in love until you've flossed your teeth next to the person at least three hundred times ... — Marisha Pessl

All of these teeth had once been in real, live people. They had talked and smiled and eaten and sang and cursed and prayed. They had brushed and flossed and died. In English class, we read poems about death, but here, right in front of me was a poem about death too. — Gabrielle Zevin

I see the entire world as Eden, and every time you take an inch of it away, you must do so with respect. — Joni Mitchell

What I want," he said softly, "is you. Just you. — Sabrina Jeffries

Time flowed for Bela in the opposite direction. The day after yesterday, she sometimes said. Pronounced slightly differently, Bela's name, the name of a flower, was itself the word for a span of time, a portion of the day. Shakal bela meant morning; bikel bela, afternoon. Ratrir bela was night. Bela's yesterday was a receptacle for anything her mind stored. Any experience or impression that had come before. Her memory was brief, its contents limited. Lacking chronology, randomly rearranged. — Jhumpa Lahiri

Outside major darkness where the circle is complete there's no fear that lovers born will ever fail to meet — Robert Hunter

Sorrow rushed into her soul, moaning softly like the winter wind in abandoned manor houses. — Gustave Flaubert

Most companies want free enterprise in general because that produces better goods and services and makes people's lives better, but they don't want it in their business. They want protection from competition, they want subsidies, they want the government to pick winners and losers, and they want to be picked as winners, and that's what we're opposing, and that's what drives my whole efforts in policy, and in the political arena. — Charles Koch

Saudi Arabia's first female athlete will be allowed to compete while wearing a head scarf. The Saudi woman said she was thrilled about the ruling all she needs now is a man to drive her to the Olympics. — Conan O'Brien

And I would begin with the EPA, because there is no other agency like the EPA. It should really be renamed the 'job-killing organization of America.' — Michele Bachmann

I can't work in a house where there's saints. The minute there's saints, the devil sends messengers — Timothy Findley