Relume Laser Quotes & Sayings

Swinging first and swinging to kill is all that matters now. — Ernie Pyle

It was pretty clear they thought I was sufficiently incapacitated, leaving me back here to my own devices. It was also clear that they weren't taking me to go get ice cream. — Laura Thalassa

I think we're lucky because there are very few people in life who get to do what we're doing. — Tony Scott

Many foster children have had difficulty making the transition to independent living. Several are homeless, become single parents, commit crimes, or live in poverty. They are also frequent targets of crime. — Charles Bass

Death represented a failure of the medical system; it would not be permitted to upset the patients or their families. — Caitlin Doughty

Without worry to protect me, every thought that came into my mind received real attention. — Ann Patchett

Recurrent floods of sadness and anger gradually wash away the rubble of the defunct relationship, leaving only the bits of treasure: the remembered moments of real communion, a new understanding of your own mistakes, a clear picture of the dysfunctions you will never tolerate again. — Martha Beck

The young accept the extraordinary as normal because they do not compare their lives with those of others when everyone is like them. — Julius Lester

Happy Valentine's Day! And if this is news to you, my guess is you're probably alone. Valentine's Day is often times a, well, it's a manufactured day that really doesn't mean anything. — Jon Stewart

The larks were singing everywhere, a heron flew past, the sky was so high in the trees were wrestling all around the house and the light-- could you catch the light and hug it tight and take it inside you? — Nescio

Just as a novelist may sometimes wonder why he invents characters who do not exist and makes them do things which do not matter, so a philosopher may wonder why he invents cases that cannot occur in order to determine what must be the case. — Edward St. Aubyn

It's very seductive to focus on what you don't like as opposed to celebrating all that it is that you do. — Talib Kweli

Some book reviewer whose name I forget recently called me a 'vicious misanthrope' ... or maybe it was a 'cynical misanthrope' ... but either way, he (or she) was right; and what got me this way was politics. — Hunter S. Thompson

The blacklist was a time of evil ... no one on either side who survived it came through untouched by evil ... [Looking] back on this time ... it will do no good to search for villains or heroes or saints or devils because there were none; there were only victims. — Dalton Trumbo