Paludosum Quotes & Sayings

I really have to thank Facebook ... I didn't know what Facebook was, and now that I do know what it is, I have to say, it sounds like a huge waste of time. I would never say the people on it are losers, but that's only because I'm polite. People say 'But Betty, Facebook is a great way to connect with old friends.' Well at my age, if I wanna connect with old friends, I need a Ouija Board. Needless to say, we didn't have Facebook when I was growing up. We had phonebook, but you wouldn't waste an afternoon with it. — Betty White

Traditional society was more like a set of concentric circles of meaningful structures, while modern man must learn how to find meaning in many structures to which he is only marginally related. In the village, language and architecture and religion and work and family customs were consistent with one another, mutually explanatory and reinforcing. To grow into one implied a growth into others. — Ivan Illich

I have been presented with roles with demand not just a physical ability but mental disciplines as well. 'Memoirs of a Geisha' was not so much about physical exertion ... it was much more graceful and contained than that. — Michelle Yeoh

If people are looking forward to my films, then I am happy, and I must be doing something right. — Abhishek Bachchan

I wasn't sure if all the bright days I'd had with Dimitri were worth the hurt I felt now. — Richelle Mead

...the happy weight of secret love is just as heavy as sadness. — Kathleen Hale

What was happening to him? - he wondered. The impossible conflict of feeling reluctance to do that which was right - wasn't it the basic formula of moral corruption? To recognize one's guilt, yet feel nothing but the coldest, most profound indifference. — Ayn Rand

I have a sixth sense for things I don't want to know and her manner pegged this as top of the scale ignorance-is-bliss material. — J.F. Lewis

Krissi starts dancing toward me in a showy disco-jog. Still a bit hurt, I do vague, place-holding disco fingers at him. — Caitlin Moran

The borderline Queen experiences what therapists call "oral greediness". The desperate hunger of the borderline Queen is akin to the behavior of an infant who had gone too long between feelings. Starved, frustrated, and beyond the ability to calm of soothe herself, she grabs, flails, and wails until at last the nipple is planted securely and perhaps too deeply in her mouth. She coughs, gags, chokes, and spits, eyeing the elusive breast like a wolf guarding her food. Similarity, the Queen holds on to what is hers, taking more than she could use, in case it might be taken away prematurely. — Christine Ann Lawson

Half of life - the interesting half of life - we don't have a name for. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul. — Wassily Kandinsky

Studios, to cut through the clutter, want recognisable titles. But that does not excuse you, as a writer, from having an original story. — Roberto Orci

Cents are the most universally used interval measure. — Alexander John Ellis

Guys with nice person names try to be sympathetic. — Caroline B. Cooney