Planking Craze Quotes & Sayings

If it were a real effort to live in the Middle Ages, your life would be one perpetual prevarication. — Goldwin Smith

Kids, she says. When they're little, they believe everything you tell them about the world. As a mother, you're the world almanac and the encyclopedia and the dictionary and the Bible, all rolled up together. But after they hit some magic age, it's just the opposite. After that, you're either a liar or a fool or a villain. — Chuck Palahniuk

One sky, many lands.
One story, many books.
One truth, many interpretations.
One road, many paths.
One God, many religions. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Rip her dress off!" Bob shouted. Bob the Skull takes paperback romances very seriously. The next page turned so quickly that he tore the paper a little. Bob is even harder on books than I am.
"That's what I'm talking about!" Bob hollered, as more pages turned. — Jim Butcher

Comedy Born When Tragedy Happens :( — Navin M. Karmarkar

Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't fart and chew gum at the same time. — Lyndon B. Johnson

War knows no power. Safe shall be my going,
Secretly armed against all death's endeavour;
Safe though all safety's lost; safe where men fall;
And if these poor limbs die, safest of all. — Rupert Brooke

I remembered when my oldest brother married Malgosia, and suddenly the two of them stopped running around with us and started sitting with the parents: a very solemn kind of alchemy, one that I felt shouldn't have been able to just sneak up on me. — Naomi Novik

Every experience, waking or dream, has a lesson or message to impart to us. — Harold Klemp

When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive. — Paulo Coelho

In my unpleasant experience, unarmed against a knife, you've basically got four options. Your best bet is to run like hell, if you can. Next best is to do something immediately that prevents the attack from getting started. Third is to create distance so you can deploy a longer-range weapon. Fourth is to go berserk and hope not to get fatally cut going through and over your attacker. I don't care how much training you've had, these are your only realistic options, and none of them is particularly good except maybe the first. Unarmed techniques against the knife are a crapshoot, and against a determined attacker with a live blade, they offer piss-poor odds. — Barry Eisler

I think they could teach us unimaginable things.
Unimaginable! I can't imagine anything except danger.
I know. That's why they're afraid of you. — Patricia A. McKillip

I clamped down on the sick, hurt feeling inside that threatened to make me burst into tears. My eyes dried instantly. I was good at hiding tears. I should be; I'd had three years to get good at it. — P.C. Cast

Transported to a different culture, thought often loses its subtlety and can even rampage like a wild beast. — Minae Mizumura

To many, Heathrow in August is a paradigm of Hell. — Paul Johnson