Funeral Pyre Julien Quotes & Sayings

At least part of the reason I am a SNOOT is that for years my mom brainwashed us in all sort of subtle ways. Here's an example. Family suppers often involved a game: if one of us children made a usage error, Mom would pretend to have a coughing fit that would go on and on until the relevant child had identified the relevant error and corrected it. It was all very self-ironic and lighthearted; but still, looking back, it seems a bit excessive to pretend that your small child is actually denying you oxygen by speaking incorrectly. — David Foster Wallace

Down close to certain flowers
all excesses are sufficiencies — David Giannini

My nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger and leaving the dear ones unprotected. — Mahatma Gandhi

At times like this, Eryn didn't feel like they were just twins. They were teammates. They were partners. They were two halves of the same brain. — Margaret Peterson Haddix

To mimic virtue is of every age; but the hypocrisy of luxury belongs more particularly to the ages of democracy. — Alexis De Tocqueville

Now, although my life is still pleasant, the days of easy money are over. — Ben Stein

inside them, no one's having fun.
Instead, people are expressing needs (to earn money, to see a woman's skin) in pretty much the most depressing way possible. — Caitlin Moran

All questions rely on the present for their solution. Time measures nothing but itself. The word that is written may be postponed,but not that on the lip. If this is what the occasion says, let the occasion say it. — Henry David Thoreau

The Infinate has sowed His name in the heavens in burning stars, but on earth He has sowed His name in tender flowers. — Jean Paul