Police Woman Shot Quotes & Sayings

Revolutionary movements do not spread by contamination but by resonance. Something that is constituted here resonates with the shock wave emitted by something constituted over there. ... An insurrection is not like a plague or a forest fire - a linear process which spreads from place to place after an initial spark. It rather takes the shape of a music, whose focal points, though dispersed in time and space, succeed in imposing the rhythms of their own vibrations, always taking on more density. — The Invisible Committee

In the 1920s, a generation before the coming of solid-state electronics, one could look at the circuits and see how the electron stream flowed. Radios had valves, as though electricity were a fluid to be diverted by plumbing. With the click of the knob came a significant hiss and hum, just at the edge of audibility. — James Gleick

I once read that in vaudeville, it was often the straight guy who got paid more than the comic because that's the tougher job. He has to set up the jokes in just the right way. — Michael Dirda

Oh, sir, the loftiest hopes on earth Draw lots with meaner hopes: heroic breasts, Breathing bad air, run risk of pestilence; Or, lacking lime-juice when they cross the Line, May languish with the scurvy. — George Eliot

You should not want to know the things in people's minds. If you were meant to hear them, they would be said. — Ivy Compton-Burnett

Prose is walking; poetry is flying — Galway Kinnell

Every body and thing has politics involved. Every. Single. Thing. — Mystikal

On life and peaks it is the same. With strength we win the grail, but courage is the thing we need to face the downward trail. — Jacob Clifford Moomaw

Learn everything you know in all keys. — Joe Pass

An exhaustive study of police records shows that no woman has ever shot her husband while he was doing the dishes. — Earl Wilson

I always am a firm believer in you compensate people for their job, and so I did give them bonuses. We accomplished a lot in Congress, we passed health care reform. There were threats against their lives; they had a tough two years. They'd forgone any cost-of-living increase or any bonus before. — John Salazar

Some of my most beautiful glass pieces have
cracks running through them and I like them anyway because of the colours. — Cath Crowley

One day we heard on the radio that a woman in the suburbs had seen a mountain lion behind her house and had called the police, who shot the animal. Dad got so angry he put his fist through a wall. "That mountain lion had as much right to his life as that sour old biddy does to hers," he said. "You can't kill something just because it's wild. — Jeannette Walls

A dark woman with a sharp nose opened her mouth to yell and no sound came from her. There was the instant when nobody makes a sound, when it almost seems as if there will never again be any sound - after the sound of a gun. (Guns at Cyrano's) — Raymond Chandler

If I'm on holiday, I travel light, but if it is a work trip, I take everything but the kitchen sink. — Marie Helvin

Man must not attempt to dispel the ambiguity of his being but, on the contrary, accept the task of realizing it. — Simone De Beauvoir