Perkier Quotes & Sayings

We may say that life has borrowed from inanimate processes the same mechanism used in producing these striking structures that are crystals. — Linus Pauling

Praise is the daughter of present power. — Jonathan Swift

I love Memphis. They've been good to me, the town and everything else. And quite frankly, I love the NBA and love being involved in it. — Michael Heisley

I know that the purpose of life is to understand and be in the present moment with the people you love. It's just that simple. — Jane Seymour

A perkier bit at the beginning of a Three Stooges comedy, Restless Knights (February 20, 1935), has Brennan playing their father, decked out in a large night cap and a fake white beard, lying on his deathbed calling for his sons. He confesses in tremolo that they are of royal blood: "Years ago I was the royal chamberlain of the Kingdom of Anesthesia." Now, he urges them to offer their swords in service of their imperiled queen. The quality of the writing is best exemplified in Brennan's telling Curly that his title is "Baron of Grey Matter." Brennan then says, "Come close my sons so that I may bless you," and rises enough to give them a sweeping triple slap, as the light fades on his 120-second part in this sixteen minute short. — Carl Rollyson

One must be brave if one is to take the wheel. — Meryl Streep

I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. — Edmund Burke

YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO SAY "NO — Margalis Fjelstad

Living consciousness somehow is the influence that turn the possibility of something into something real..The most essential ingredient in creating our universe is the consciousness that observe it. — Lynne McTaggart

There are some things in science which should be brought to light. There are others, doctor, which should be left alone. — Griffin Jay

The true price of anything you do is the amount of time you exchange for it. — Henry David Thoreau

When it comes to current attitudes about surgery, the practice of dismissing the cultural context and rationalizing it as individual betterment "flattens the terrain of power relations." In other words, we can talk about doing it for us until our high-end lipstick flakes off, but we should also keep in mind that we probably wouldn't even be thinking about what life would be like with a new nose or perkier breasts or shapelier inner thighs if it weren't for a long-standing cultural ideal that rewards those who adhere to it with power that often doesn't speak its name, but is instantly recognizable to those who don't have it. — Andi Zeisler