Ruffini Receptors Quotes & Sayings

In general, life is better than it has ever been, and if you think that, in the past, there was some golden age of pleasure and plenty to which you would, if you were able, transport yourself, let me say one single word : Dentistry. — P. J. O'Rourke

I'm incapable of writing without social commentary. I like to think that it's integrated and not really heavy handedly didactic. — John Shirley

The motive for our actions doesn't lie ahead of us. It's something behind us that we're trying to escape. — Peter Hoeg

Historians have generally described the coming of industrialization in terms of changes in paid work. The transformation has been framed as one from a community of comparatively independent producers to a class of wage workers. — Jeanne Boydston

I think it's quite difficult to understand what kind of life a writer leads. They might be millionaires, or they might be starving people. — Kazuo Ishiguro

All of us have that feeling of some deficiency from our childhood. I think that's a universal thing. — Rian Johnson

If you have ever seen a dragon in a pinch, you will realize that this was only poetical exaggeration applied to any hobbit, even to Old Took's great-granduncle Bullroarer, who was so huge (for a hobbit) that he could ride a horse. He charged the ranks of the goblins of Mount Gram in the Battle of the Green Fields, and knocked their king Golfibul's head clean off with a wooden club. It sailed a hundred yards through the air and went down a rabbit-hole, and in this way the battle was won and the game of Golf was invented at the same moment. — J.R.R. Tolkien

If you have to control people, you have to have an administrative force that does it. So in U.S. industry, even more than elsewhere, there's layer after layer of management - a kind of economic waste, but useful for control and domination. And the same is true in universities. — Noam Chomsky

Events did not rhyme quite as he had thought. — Thomas Hardy

Did you know that the Jews invented sushi? That's right - two Jews bought a restaurant with no kitchen. — Jackie Mason

Unquestionably, it was going to be highly dangerous. Yet I felt it was quite natural to jump at the task. After all, if you don't like action and excitement, you don't go into police work. And, what the hell, I figured, nobody lives forever! — Eliot Ness

The reality is that the AIDS epidemic continues to outstrip the global and national efforts to contain it. — Peter Piot

How do you know when a woman wants to kill you?" Rand mused. "When she knows your name?" Dobraine did not sound as if he were joking. — Robert Jordan

I am a black man inside and outside and you are white men on the outside, but inside, you are Africans like me. — Olusegun Obasanjo

We do not have a plan. They do. History shows that those that plan, anticipate and have a coherent strategy usually win. We are not winning. — Fjordman