Ilement Quotes & Sayings

But what really won me over was his butt. What finally made it impossible for me not to like the man was how right out there on the Adventist basepaths, right in front of eighty or ninety of the kind of pious adult spectators who spent their every Sabbath if not their entire lives trying to forget the existence of things like butts, Beal's buns were trying to light a fire by friction inside his jeans; they were gyrating like a washing machine with its load off balance; they were thrashing against his pants like two big halibut against the bottom of a boat. And the wonderful thing, the amazing thing, was how once his older audience got over the shock of it, they began to look amused at, then fascinated by, and finally downright grateful toward his writhing reminder that yes, buns did exist, and yes, every one of us owned not one but two of the things, and yes, like the God who created them in His Image, they did indeed move in mysterious ways. — David James Duncan

Arnold Schwarzenegger looks like a condom full of walnuts ... — Clive James

It's poor judgment', said Grandpa 'to call anything by a name. We don't know what a hobgoblin or a vampire or a troll is. Could be lots of things. You can't heave them into categories with labels and say they'll act one way or another. That'd be silly. They're people. People who do things. Yes, that's the way to put it. People who *do* things. — Ray Bradbury

I am a beneficiary of the American people's generosity, and I hope we can have comprehensive immigration legislation that allows this country to continue to be enriched by those who were not born here. — Madeleine Albright

Some spent so long outside of their own heads that they couldn't function right when they finally had to return their own. — Alexandra Bracken

Do you actually see the testosterone pour out of you when you work out, or is it more of a mist? — Eli Easton

Is it possible to take river water back after it has mixed into the sea? The river and the sea are united and one now. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Thanks, but no thanks. I need my makeup honey. - Carol — Matthew Leeth

Taking the way that opens, even if it seems hardly more than a footpath, not infrequently leads to the highways of heart's desire, if not to fame and fortune. — Frances Parkinson Keyes

An undisturbed river is as perfect as we will ever know, every refractive slide of cold water a glimpse of eternity. — Thomas McGuane

Nobody seemed to have any perspective any longer. Those were low points. But we got through it. — Uma Thurman

I want to create something that doesn't exist exactly in the real world, but exists in a kind of parallel to the real world. — Lorrie Moore

Hammurabi's Code, for example, established a pecking order of superiors, commoners and slaves. Superiors got all the good things in life. Commoners got what was left. Slaves got a beating if they complained. Despite — Yuval Noah Harari

Cunt" and "traitor" were flung at her as well, and now and — George R R Martin

All the June Saturday afternoon Sam Pollit's children were on the lookout for him as they skated round the dirt sidewalks and seamed old asphalt of R Street and Reservoir Road that bounded the deep-grassed acres of Tohoga House, their home. — Christina Stead