Page 109 Quotes & Sayings

And then, of course, Bush won reelection, with everything out there, all of our complaints, all of the issues, all of the troubles with Iraq. So where are we? Bush certainly sees himself as having been given an endorsement. He was asked about accountability in an interview, about why Rumsfeld, Rice, and Wolfowitz have been promoted, these people who led us into the debacle in Iraq. Bush said there was accountability - it was the election. So there we are. — Seymour Hersh

The supporters ... It is true that they are dangerous when they run close to the riders. From there to throwing a punch. That is a step ... — Gilberto Simoni

We express disappointment in everything except ourselves. — Mason Cooley

An abstract style is always bad. Your sentences should be full of stones, metals, chairs, tables, animals, men, and women. — Alain De Lille

Only keep still, wait, and hear, and the world will open. — Richard Powers

There's more to research than just looking up facts. Eventually, you have to make subjective calls. If you're writing a science fiction novel, there's probably some speculative technology in it. You'll have to decide how to project existing technology forward in a plausible way. — Andy Weir

August has passed, and yet summer continues by force to grow days. They sprout secretly between the chapters of the year, covertly included between its pages. — Jonathan Safran Foer

I was forced to masturbate in front
of teammates — David Beckham

Jed
talks about the foreseeable future and
how little there is that we can foresee. — David Levithan

You can wish upon a star and remember that someone's dream already came true ... because you exist. — Coco Nicole Estef

Make it your habit to behold the Light without the glass, so that when the glass is shattered you may not be left blind. — Jalaluddin Rumi

Jiu Jitsu opened up doors in my mind that public education had bolted shut. In hindsight, I see just how superficial my thoughts had been prior to this art. It is no coincidence that my efforts in reading and writing have run parallel with this craft. I began training Jiu Jitsu at twenty-two, and at the time of this writing I am about to turn thirty. I have learned more in the past eight years than the previous twenty-two, and have no doubts that Jiu Jitsu opened up my mind in a way traditional organized education never could. Jiu Jitsu gave me a life when I didn't know how to live. It is the best thing I have ever done, and is the foundation upon which all I will do. — Chris Matakas

A priest is an enemy of society disguised as a sheep."

Mother laughed.

"No, professor!" burst out Antonio. "Maybe they dressed up as sheep in your day. Now, they don't even bother anymore."

"You're right about that, young man. In my time, they were killers. Today, they can't kill anymore, so they terrorize people and inform on them instead. It comes to the same thing. — Agustin Gomez-Arcos

But I've always been a sucker for a good double entendre; the gap between what is said and what is thought, what is stated and what is implied, is a place in which I have always found myself. I'm really not a liar, I just learned very early on that those of us deprived of history sometimes need to turn to mythology to feel complete, to belong.(p10) — Meera Syal

That old woman taught me my catechism! said the young man; and there was a world of meaning in this simple comment. — Nathaniel Hawthorne