Scrupulously Clean Quotes & Sayings

Those blue eyes stared straight through her. They demanded she think and feel and remember. She hesitated. "Yes." He shook his head and looked away from her. "Then, what are you doing here?" "What?" "If it's him, Lex, and you're really happy, then what are you doing here? — K.A. Linde

I'm a visual thinker. With almost all of my writing, I start with something that's visual: either the way someone says something that is visual or an actual visual description of a scene and color. — Gerald Vizenor

By hearing from the Guru, we can understand what is the desire of Lord within our heart. — Radhanath Swami

I was living with this sense that there was something going on, something important, but I didn't know what it was. It was like ... I knew the secret was there, and it was a dark one, but I just couldn't reach it. Nearly drove me mad. — J.R. Ward

We don't believe in splitting the experience. We don't believe in taking a row out and putting in motion seats [that shake and move in response to cues from a film]. If you walk into that auditorium you're going to have a communal experience. — Gerry Lopez

For abundance and endless consumption are the ideals of the poor: they are the mirage in the desert of misery. — Hannah Arendt

My dad always told me to stand up to bullies, and Bill O'Reilly is kind of a bully, and he's the kind of kid who hits other kids on the playground. And when you hit him, he runs to the teacher and says, 'Teacher, sue him.' — Al Franken

As chef Mehdi Chellaoui says, "I use lemon like I use salt." Mario Batali would agree: if something is missing, it's probably acid. — Timothy Ferriss

Sometimes it felt as if all happiness came at a price. You could never, ever, have perfection. Life gave you beauty so you could bear the pain. — Ann Aguirre

DEAN: ...life sucked, and not in a good way. — Mina Carter

Neo-Spenglerians who are attuned to the racial view of history (call them "racists" for convenience) hold that the "final" phase of a Culture - the imperialistic stage - is final only because the cultural organism destroys its body and kills its soul by this process. Obviously, if we are to draw analogies between cultures and organisms we must agree that the soul of the organism dies only because of the death of the body. The soul can sicken - the soul of the West is now diseased and perhaps mortally ill - but it cannot die unless the organism itself dies. And this, point out the racists, is precisely what has happened to all previous cultures; death of the organism being the natural result of the suicidal process of imperialism. — Willis Carto