Pussums Catnip Quotes & Sayings

At last she drifted into sleep, and in the country of sleep she found herself standing in the orchard where she had spoken with Uther, where she had dried his tears with her veil. — Marion Zimmer Bradley

When the topic is growing income inequality, it's hard to prettify an imbalance between the rich and everybody else, so instead, conservatives try to argue that it doesn't exist. — Timothy Noah

Individuals are concerned not
with the moral issue of realizing these standards, but with
the amoral issue of engineering a convincing impression that
these standards are being realized. Our activity, then, is
largely concerned with moral matters, but as performers we
do not have a moral concern in these moral matters. As
performers we are merchants of morality. Our day is given
over to intimate contact with the goods we display and our
minds are filled with intimate understandings of them; but it
may well be that the more attention we give to these goods,
th e more d is ta n t we feel from them and from those who are
believing enough to buy them. To use a different imagery,
the very obligation and profitablility of appearing always in
a steady moral light, of being a socialized character, forces
us to be the sort of person who is practiced in the ways of
the stage. — Erving Goffman

I have a problem with heights in general - and climbing! — Jamie Bell

L.A. Clippers owner Donald Sterling was recorded on tape making racist comments. He now has been banned from the league for life. Great, just where Sterling wanted to end up - the blacklist. — Jimmy Fallon

the sales compensation plan is Batman, the sales contest is Robin. — Mark Roberge

Gentlemen, you are about to witness the most famous victory in history. — Adolf Hitler

In this book, the history of American religion is the history of human actions and human organizations, not the history of ideas (refined or otherwise). But this is not to say that we regard theology as unimportant. To the contrary, we shall argue repeatedly that religious organizations can thrive only to the extent that they have a theology that can comfort souls and motivate sacrifice. In a sense, then, we are urging an underlying model of religious history that is the exact opposite of one based on progress through theological refinement. We shall present compelling evidence that theological refinement is the kind of progress that results in organizational bankruptcy. — Roger Finke

In the end, you have to just sit down, shut up, and write. — Natalie Goldberg

Lifting whole passages from someone else's speeches is not change you can believe in. It's change you can Xerox. — Hillary Clinton

Modesty should accompany youth. — Plautus

The celebrity body I most admire is Madonna's. She has the most incredible physique - and the woman's in her 50s! — Elisha Cuthbert

A bag of dragons buys a man's silence for a while, but a well-placed quarrel buys it forever. — George R R Martin

I've come to the conclusion that mythology is really a form of archaeological psychology. Mythology gives you a sense of what a people believes, what they fear. — George Lucas

He says he's letting the Stormfather judge you," Moash added. "Jezerezeh, king of Heralds. He says that if you deserve to live, you will ... ." He trailed off. He knew as well as the others that unprotected men didn't survive highstorms, not like this. — Brandon Sanderson