Pasada Motel Quotes & Sayings

I think humor is a very serious thing. I use it as a way of weakening the reader's defenses so that I can more easily take him to something more. — William Collins

Mediate on Scriptures. It is refreshing to the soul. — Lailah Gifty Akita

For he who is a corrupter of the laws is more than likely to be a corrupter of the young and foolish portion of mankind. — Plato

Instead of spelling stories you spread silence, which was outside the alphabet. — Lauren Slater

I view my role now as providing more of a macro-level skepticism, rather than saying this poll is good or this poll is evil. — Nate Silver

Each boy's socialization is unique. Even two siblings close in age do not learn identical values. Culture is thus transmitted on a continuum. In a culture that is fairly religious, for example, some children will grow up to be devout believers; others will reject the faith completely; and most will fall in with the average level of religious observance for their community. Where a child will land on this continuum partly depends on how strong a set of messages he or she receives from the social environment and partly on his or her personal predispositions. The family rebel, for example, might become an atheist, while the child who is most focused on pleasing the parents might become even more religious than they are. — Lundy Bancroft

Laughter
an interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features, and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious, and though intermittent, incurable. — Ambrose Bierce

Expressing criticism of society is not being a grouch. — Noam Chomsky

Several hard-core Star Wars fans who had tickets for the first showing actually said that when the movie finally began, they started crying. Mainly because they realized that it's 22 years later, and they still haven't lost their virginity. — Conan O'Brien

I think the reason why a lot of young people are such screw ups ... is oftentimes they didn't have the luxury I had of forming important relationships and opinions and life experiences before having success. — George Clooney

Fresh pain, exposing old pain — Lauren Kate

We live in a world where it's so accessible to date now, which is great. I don't judge that. We have so many ways of meeting people. I like to meet someone and have that chivalry, to take them out on a date and actually be a gentleman. I think that's becoming rarer and rarer. — Alex Pettyfer

I'm very influenced by the circus. A lot of the dreams that I have, I'm in the circus. — Jeff Mangum