Pacata Pacata Quotes & Sayings

[Finishing schools] are nicely adapted machines for experimenting on the question, "Into how little space a human being can be crushed?" I have seen some souls so compressed that they would have fitted into a small thimble, and found room to move ... — Olive Schreiner

Did you set this fire?" Thiago demanded angrily.
"If I had started this fire, there would just be a crater," Brandt answered heatedly, "and none of us would be sitting here breathing in all this lovely smoke because I would have made damn sure to blow us all to Hell!" he shouted. It was the first time Thiago had seen the big man perturbed, and he instantly regretted his hasty accusation. "So no, I didn't start this fire, but fuck you very much, all the same. — Abigail Roux

The body is ready to have babies. Nature wants it done then, when the body can handle it, not after 40, when the income can handle it. — Toni Morrison

Future generations will look back on TV as the lead in the water pipes that slowly drove the Romans mad. — Kurt Vonnegut

In most instances, biotechnology, though a radically different approach, is a sustaining technology: It's a dramatically improved way of targeting problems that we hadn't been able to solve with the conventional approach of mainstream pharmaceutical companies. — Clayton Christensen

Science intensifies religious truth by cleansing it of ignorance and superstition. — Charles Lindbergh

The fish are always selling well. They are the only one of God's creatures that never disappoints. — Martin Davies

I miss it like an ex-con misses the other inmates. — Megan Miranda

Strife brings all things into being on her battlefield. This I know. I have been there many times," says Vashanka, lord of sack and pillage. "I have died before. — Janet Morris

People see my current success but don't realize I've worked hard to get where I am. I used to clean garbage off the Philadelphia docks and put a lot of time into developing my music. — Kevin Eubanks

While we're talking, time will have meanly run on ... pick today's fruits, not relying on the future in the slightest. — Horace

Have you ever listened to folk music? Let's face it, a lot of folk music is all about dead sailors, mad witches, rape and fratricide. — Marie Browne

Enjoy it any way you can. — Melissa Craig