Rifenburg Bamboo Quotes & Sayings

At one time, the treatment for a certain kind of psychosis had been to push an ice pick up through the orbit of the eye, into the frontal lobe; the ice pick was then stirred around until it reduced the problematic brain tissue to non-functioning porridge. — Alastair Reynolds

I point out. It was the most foolish, jape-fisted bit of buffoonery I have ever seen, and I am impressed in spite of that. — Robin LaFevers

A $10,000 investment in Dell at its 1988 initial public offering would have yielded a fortune of ~$6 million at the stock's peak. — Heather Simmons

The brush is a more powerful and rapid tool than the point or the stump ... the main thing that the brush secures is the instant grasp of the grand construction of a figure. — Thomas Eakins

In both metaphysics and art, honesty is the best policy. Keep it clean. — Edward Abbey

Our Revolution was born and raised in taverns. — Barbara Holland

The knife will only hurt for a moment. Then your choice will be made, and it will all be over. — Veronica Roth

She's lived in Plato's cave, staring at the shadows on the wall. Now she's been turned around to face the fire. — M.R. Carey

The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself. — Benjamin Haydon

Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue. — William Shakespeare

Don't you wanna be a great baseball player?" He sighed back into the wall. "I want to be a great man, Fielding." And so we stand, proved of our existence by those who see us. And how did I see Grand, how did any of us, but as the one who would be great at this and that, as long as it was baseball and girls. He always had to be what we wanted him to be first. He existed only by proxy to our dreams of him. — Tiffany McDaniel

The feed was probably the biggest innovation in social media of late. But the interesting thing about a feed is that the more content you consume, the farther in time you go. — Evan Spiegel