Paffhausen State Quotes & Sayings

Helped the boy-governor eat the remains of the fruit, they discussed how it was that newspapers sometimes knew all sorts of secrets that they ought not to have known - and certainly ought not to publish, when the rest of the time they had no interest in facts at all. "Whatever sounds as if it might suit the prejudices of the reader, that is what will be published," said Chase. — Gore Vidal

Trying to create an overly flattened society inevitably and unintentionally creates new centers of power. A revolution might dethrone the old rich, but only at the expense of empaneling an unchallenged communist party, along with a politburo and legions of clever schemers and ass kissers who turn into a new privileged class. The right way to deal with concentrations of power is not to try to vaporize them, but to balance them. — Jaron Lanier

She had never experienced the pain of unsatisfied desire before. It hurt. It hurt like nothing she'd ever felt, and there seemed to be no remedy. — Lisa Kleypas

I live to service you — J. Lynn

There's probably a lot of people wondering if I can play. — Jaromir Jagr

SOME DAYS I LOOK BACK ON MY LIFE AND I'M EXTREMELY IMPRESSED I'M STILL ALIVE. - T-SHIRT — Darynda Jones

I joke, but I only half joke, that if you come to one of our hospitals missing a limb, no one will believe you till they get a CAT scan, MRI, or orthopedic consult. — Abraham Verghese

No, it is not my sense of the immorality of the Humbert Humbert-Lolita relationship that is strong; it is Humbert's sense. He cares, I do not. I do not give a damn for public morals, in America or elsewhere. And, anyway, cases of men in their forties marrying girls in their teens or early twenties have no bearing on Lolita whatever. Humbert was fond of "little girls" - not simply "young girls." Nymphets are girl-children, not starlets and "sex kittens." Lolita was twelve, not eighteen, when Humbert met her. You may remember that by the time she is fourteen, he refers to her as his "aging mistress. — Vladimir Nabokov

Synchronicity could be understood as an ordering system by means of which "similar" things coincide, without there being any apparent cause. — C. G. Jung

Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen. — Mort Sahl

You are a black goddess when you come out the salon. — Jenifer Lewis