Pearlized Quotes & Sayings

I only have a Bachelor's Degree but I've had professors who have instilled this kind of academic rigor in me where I don't make any generalizations or closed statements. There always has to be room for interpretation. — Ayshay

I think it's highly likely that we'll continue to have high-performance graphics capability in living rooms. I'm not sure we're all going to put down our game controllers and pick up touch screens - which is a reasonable view, I'm just not sure I buy into it. — Gabe Newell

At the midpoint on the journey of life, I found myself in a dark forest, for the clear path was lost ... — Dante Alighieri

There is never enough gold to redeem all the currency in circulation. — John Buchanan Robinson

Just before he passed behind the hedge at the end of the drive, he turned to look back at Stoke Morrow and caught me spying on him. His shining eyes were so cruel, and before I could close the curtain, I saw the flash of an awful grin on his face. It was a grin that said he knew I'd come around. Sooner or later, I'd fall in line. — Adam McOmber

Apart from the soul, the brewing of tea is the only thing that sets us apart from the great apes. — Alan Bradley

The EU Constitution is something new in human history. Though it is not as eloquent as the French and U.S. constitutions, it is the first governing document of its kind to expand the human franchise to the level of global consciousness. The language throughout the draft constitution speaks of universalism, making it clear that its focus is not a people, or a territory, or a nation, but rather the human race and the planet we inhabit. — Jeremy Rifkin

Though slavery is thought, by some, to be mild in Missouri, when compared with the cotton, sugar and rice growing states, yet no part of our slave-holding country is more noted for the barbarity of its inhabitants than St. Louis. — William Wells Brown

All money does with an empty heart is allow you to be miserable in style. — Stefan Molyneux

He strips me to my last nakedness, that underskin of mauve, pearlized satin, like a skinned rabbit; then dresses me again in an embrace so lucid and encompassing it might be made of water. And shakes over me dead leaves as if into the stream I have become.
Sometimes the birds, at random, all singing, strike a chord.
His skin covers me entirely; we are like two halves of a seed, enclosed in the same integument. I should like to grow enormously small, so that you could swallow me, like those queens in fairy tales who conceive when they swallow a grain of corn or a sesame seed. Then I could lodge inside your body and you would bear me. — Angela Carter

I glared at him. I may not die now ... but I'm going to die sometime. Every minute of the day, I get closer. And I'm going to get old. — Stephenie Meyer

We cannot erase what has been done. We can apologize for it. We can express our outrage. We can say to the American people and to the people of the world, this is not our way and we do not condone it, but we cannot change it and we cannot erase it. — Ben Nelson

There is something to be said for every error; but, whatever may be said for it, the most important thing to be said about it is that it is erroneous. — G.K. Chesterton

The Bill of Rights is not a suicide pact. — Robert H. Jackson

I don't laugh so much at jokes and premises as I do at a guy who goes onstage and starts twitching and acting funny. — Harland Williams

God is love, love is blind, Stevie Wonder is blind, therefore Stevie Wonder is God. — Oscar Wilde