Scarabaeidae Quotes & Sayings

DYING IS NOT HOT
By Celia the Dark

Cool is no longer cool because cool is now hot,
and school isn't school if you are skipping.
Then the neighborhood is school and John,
the creepy dropout guy is teaching.

And it isn't cool because the cool kids stay in school,
where the other cool kids tell them them how hot they are
and they wouldn't want to miss a dance for cutting.

Kids who skip school were never cool or hot but
already dumped into the trashcan with leftover lunch pizza,
bruised into a locker, asking their parents for extra lunch money
so they can smoke and act like they never cared anyway.

And skipping school's not cool but it is school
because that's where they learn what the uncool learn
about life and dying. — Karen Finneyfrock

Never trust a journalist unless she's your mother. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Like 'God's Not Dead,' the fundamentalist Christian movie that has become a popular hit, 'Transcendence' is essentially a dramatized debate. And as 'God's Not Dead' stacks the rhetorical cards for the Deity's existence, the Pfister film eventually hangs back with the Luddites. — Richard Corliss

Right now, oil is being isolated around the globe, and there is a major effort in shipping, trucking and otherwise transporting that oil around to a very finite number of refineries. Biology allows us to make these same fuels in a much more distributed fashion. — Craig Venter

Then there was the war, and I married it because there was nothing else when I reached the age of falling in love. — Guy Sajer

My dad was an attorney. The last thing he ever thought about was clothes, and yet somehow he always looked good. — Thom Browne

The Holocaust, taken by itself, is a black hole. To look at it directly is to be swallowed up by it. — David Novak

They say fish should swim thrice * * * first it should swim in the sea (do you mind me?) then it should swim in butter, and at last, sirrah, it should swim in good claret. — Jonathan Swift

I think generally speaking, both people are trying to be free from the abuses of the white racist North American authorities. I think that's the one common denominator. The Cubans found a way to liberate themselves and we haven't found the way yet. So that's the difference. — Huey Newton

With any story I write, I could actually write it from three or four different perspectives, which would end with a completely different moral at the end. — Tracey Emin

Without growth we can't pay down our debt, and without growth there's no money for welfare. — Helle Thorning-Schmidt

You must weather the storm and come out on the other side stronger than before. — Morgan Rhodes

She was trying to make him understand that she would never march to the beat of anyone else's drum again and he was arrogantly assuring her that she would if he were the drummer! — Sandra Marton