Krakauer Sausage Quotes & Sayings

you prefer to listen rather than read (sometimes called "ristening"), try a text-to-speech app for your mobile device. — Jeff Blum

I enjoyed this scene; and yet my enjoyment was embittered both by the memory of the past, and the anticipation of the future. I was formed for peaceful happiness. During my youthful days discontent never visited my mind; and if I was ever overcome by ennui, the sight of what is beautiful in nature, or the study of what is excellent and sublime in the productions of man, could always interest my heart, and communicate elasticity to my spirits. But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit, what I shall soon cease to be
a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others, and intolerable to myself. — Mary Shelley

Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin! — Joseph Addison

People make jokes about how black people are the first ones to be killed off. — Sanaa Lathan

The fog tried to remember something from its fog childhood, but the memory was...foggy. — Dan Ryckert

We have to discard the past / and, as one builds / floor by floor, window by window, / and the building rises, / so do we keep shedding - first, broken tiles, / then proud doors ... and each new day / gleams / like an empty / plate. — Pablo Neruda

Music causes us to think eloquently. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is something immensely scary about putting yourself out there for people to love or hate you, fan or pan you, review or screw you. — L.V. Lewis

The risk is that you furnish the project with new suggestions to try and freshen it up; it's not always beneficial. You risk betraying the original intention with the story, forgetting what it is you really want to portray. — Lars Von Trier

Practically the only way to dry the swamp of radical Islam is through economic development and an improved standard of living. — Yitzhak Rabin

She's belonged to me her whole life, but I only got my hands on her five months ago. — Ella Dominguez

We live in one global environment with a huge number of ecological, economic, social, and political pressures tearing at its only dimly perceived, basically uninterpreted and uncomprehended fabric. Anyone with even a vague consciousness of this whole is alarmed at how such remorselessly selfish and narrow interests - patriotism, chauvinism, ethnic, religious, and racial hatreds - can in fact lead to mass destructiveness. The world simply cannot afford this many more times. — Edward W. Said

We tend to think of the Norman Conquest as the turning point in the history of England. But the Saxon Conquest was even more important, since it created both the reality and the idea of England itself. — David Starkey

Even if my mother had no qualms of conscience concerning ownership of negroes, her sense of duty carried her far beyond the mere supplying of their physical needs, or requiring that they render faithful service. — John Sergeant Wise