Jackstraws Quotes & Sayings

I've fallen in love with shows like 'Homeland' and 'The Wire.' And I think 'The Office' is in a category like that. — John Krasinski

The past cannot remember the past. The future can't generate the future. The cutting edge of this instant right here and now is always nothing less than the totality of everything there is. — Anonymous

If it's a flash it's been an awfully long flash. I've been around for 20 years in one of the largest media and political markets in the country, so I'd call it more of a slow burn. — Jack Layton

Often the depths of human misery can be found amongst legions of happy people. — Russ Woody

The world was in truth made of jackstraws. The world was very combustible, the human body was partible in ways heretofore unimagined. What held the civilized world together was the thinnest tissue of nothing but human will. Civilization was not in the natural order but was some wort of willed invention held taut like a fabric or a sail against the chaos of the winds. And why we had invented it, or how we knew to invent it, was beyond him.
Newmann had seen some truth that was completely out of his power to put into words. But he had come away knowing that even though the world of civilization was made of straw and lantern slides, he must live in it as if it were solid. Even when the heat of the lantern itself burnt away the illusions and a black hole appeared in the middle of the slide. — Paulette Jiles

And the more he treated her as though she were really very nice, the more Lotty expanded and became really very nice, and the more he, affected in his turn, became really very nice himself; so that they went round and round, not in a vicious but in a highly virtuous circle. — Elizabeth Von Arnim

Comedy is the only hope for humanity. — Roseanne Barr

Europe was a heap of swords piled as delicately as jackstraws; one could not be pulled out without moving the others. Under — Barbara W. Tuchman

And the night smells like snow. Walking home for a moment you almost believe you could start again. And an intense love rushes to your heart, and hope. It's unendurable, unendurable — Franz Wright

Adultery is the vice of equivocation.
It is not marriage but a mockery of it, a merging that mixes love and dread together like jackstraws. There is no understanding of contentment in adultery ... You belong to each other in what together you've made of a third identity that almost immediately cancels your own. There is a law in art that proves it. Two colors are proven complimentary only when forming that most desolate of all colors
neutral gray. — Alexander Theroux

Literature seems to offer lessons in human nature that help us decode the world around us and be better friends. — Nicholas Kristof

I would do a movie musical. — Alia Shawkat

I believe in Ronald Reagan's 11th commandment, thou shall not speak unfavorably of another Republican. — Renee Ellmers

I had evoked - and the book was indeed all I had suspected. — H.P. Lovecraft

lunge for the computer and pull up the only lifeline I have. Twitter. — J.A. Huss

The Police and the Society of Jesus posses in common the virtue of never forsaking their enemies as friends. — Honore De Balzac

A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever. — John Adams