Rollerskates Quotes & Sayings

No one really knows me. People think they know me. — Johnny Thunders

The event that will light the way for immigration in North America is the talking picture. The silent film brings nothing but entertainment - a pie in the face, a fop being dragged by a bear out of a department store - all events governed by fate and timing, not language and argument. The tramp never changes the opinion of the policeman. The truncheon swings, the tramp scuttles through a corner window and disturbs the fat lady's ablutions. These comedies are nightmares. The audience emits horrified laughter as Chaplin, blindfolded, rollerskates near the edge of the unbalconied mezzanine. No one shouts to warn him. He cannot talk or listen. North America is still without language, gestures and work and bloodlines are the only currency. — Michael Ondaatje

I am standing on one side of the chasm, holding out my hand to you, yet you refuse to reach for me. — Evangeline Anderson

Education is a natural community function and occurs inevitably, since the young grow up on
the old, towards their activities, and into (or against) their institutions; and the old foster, teach,
train, exploit and abuse the young. Even neglect of the young, except physical neglect, has an
educational effect -- not the worst possible. — Paul Goodman

The science of this world, which has become a great power, has, especially in the last century, analysed everything divine handed down to us in the holy books. After this cruel analysis the learned of this world have nothing left of all that was sacred of old. But they have only analysed the parts and overlooked the whole, and indeed their blindness is marvellous. Yet the whole still stands steadfast before their eyes, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it ... For even those who have renounced Christianity and attack it, in their in most being still follow the Christian ideal — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic. — Virginia Woolf

Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows. — Ben Stein

Man's poverty is abysmal, his wants are endless till he becomes truly conscious of his soul. Till then, the world to him is in a state of flux - a phantasm that is and is not. — Rabindranath Tagore

He nuclear family from across the street, which, as a result of decay, truly did have 2.5 kids; — Robin Becker

The more I think about sex, the better it gets! — Kate Bush

Don't wear rollerskates to a tug-of-war. — Larry Wall

The mathematician starts with a few propositions, the proof of which is so obvious that they are called self-evident, and the rest of his work consists of subtle deductions from them. The teaching of languages, at any rate as ordinarily practiced, is of the same general nature authority and tradition furnish the data, and the mental operations are deductive. — Thomas Huxley

Etta?" Nicholas's face floated in front of hers.
"I'm okay," she promised. "Just ... "
Hasan's face transformed, sharpening. "Who are you to be so familiar with my little niece? Remove your hands before I do."
"Familiar?" she repeated, just as Nicholas's grip tightened and he said, "Her husband."
Etta choked. — Alexandra Bracken

His voice hardened again.'Now get back to your room-if you can manage it without throwing yourself at someone else.' Is that your subtle way of calling me a slut? — Richelle Mead