Partheneia Quotes & Sayings

Benny the Clown had torn open the man's abdominal cavity, his claws cradling several loops of glistening intestines. But rather than gorging on them, the clown was stretching and pulling the bloody loops, twisting the organ into knots. Familiar knots.
'Is that ... a flamingo?' asked the old woman. — Blake Crouch

A world without delight and without affection is a world destitute of value. — Bertrand Russell

When you open a book," the sentimental library posters said, "anything can happen." This was so. A book of fiction was a bomb. It was a land mine you wanted to go off. You wanted it to blow your whole day. Unfortunately, hundreds of thousands of books were duds. They had been rusting out of everyone's way for so long that they no longer worked. There was no way to distinguish the duds from the live mines except to throw yourself at them headlong, one by one. — Annie Dillard

Even so husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. — Paul The Apostle

Nothing is more dangerous in wartime than to live in the temperamental atmosphere of a Gallup Poll, always feeling one's pulse and taking one's temperature. — Winston Churchill

In New Classical theory, periods of declining employment - business cycle downturns - may be caused by an unexpected decline in aggregate demand, which leaves workers mistakenly holding out for nominal wages that exceed the new market-clearing level. — George Akerlof

There's this joy that comes from sitting down to solve a problem and standing up when it's done and good. Building a company or managing people is never just done. — Drew Houston

Architecture is the reaching out for the truth. — Louis Kahn

I'm an adult. Discipline me and I'll bury you alive. - Roger — Douglas Coupland

Every week, I take two phone calls or meetings with an aspiring producer or director. — Charlie Ebersol