Imposts And Excises Quotes & Sayings

A femtosecond is comparable to one second in 32 million years. It is like watching a 32-million-year movie to see one second. — Ahmed Zewail

The object of living is work, experience, happiness. — Henry Ford

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

It's strange. Hearing you say my name."
"I can say it again if you'd like."
"No, I'll remember just fine. — Andrew Pyper

Now, here I am, a stranded woman marching down a spooky, remote road with no one to hear me scream. I'm in a damned plot for B horror flick! — Jacquelyn Frank

That could have happened, really, it could have, if he hadn't shoved his muzzle into her crotch. Her breath swooshed out of her as she stood there in shock. He. Was. Sniffing. Her. Pussy. And she didn't know what to do. — Milly Taiden

Rather, what happened to human illusions was that they crumbled, they withered away. It was a long and wearisome process, like a toothache reaching far into the soul. But you can pull out a tooth and it will be gone. Illusions, however, even when dead, continue to rot and stink within us. We cannot escape their taste and smell. We carry them around with us all the time. — Julian Barnes

Well, we tell our kids things like 'don't gossip' and then an hour later they hear us on the phone. Stuff like that. — Anna Quindlen

If Congress sees fit to impose a capitation, or other direct tax, it must be laid in proportion to the census; if Congress determines to impose duties, imposts, and excises, they must be uniform throughout the United States. These are not strictly limitations of power. They are rules prescribing the mode in which it shall be exercised. This review shows that personal property, contracts, occupations, and the like have never been regarded by Congress as proper subjects of direct tax. — Salmon P. Chase

The new CIA torture report is 6 million pages long. It's almost as long as a George Clooney pre-nup. — David Letterman

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us. — Winston Churchill