Sendstuffnow Quotes & Sayings

I once burned block-wide curse words into the streets of new york and declared cosmic jihad on the people of earth — Jason Aaron

I knew that I was supposed to respond with some kind of mannered phrase that ended with "hail Satan," but I couldn't bring myself to do so. It seemed too empty and ritualistic, like wearing a uniform in a Christian school. — Marilyn Manson

I find it hilarious that whenever I light up, Americans look at me like I'm going to urinate on their children. — Michelle Hodkin

How does the poet speak to men with power, but by being still more a man than they — John Keats

The reason I became a better player was because I came to Philly. — Michael Vick

Comedy is very controlling - you are making people laugh. — Gilda Radner

I think that writers often try too hard in the name of expression, when often it's just a matter of reframing what's around you or republishing a preexisting text into a new environment that makes for a successful work. — Kenneth Goldsmith

There has been a change in attitude, though. — Daniel Petrie

Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard. — Wallace Shawn

I've seen so many thousands of hands that I am just going to be right more often than most people. — Daniel Negreanu

Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them. — George Santayana

Civilization is an experiment, a very recent way of life in the human career, and it has a habit of walking into what I am calling progress traps. A small village on good land beside a river is a good idea; but when the village grows into a city and paves over the good land, it becomes a bad idea. While prevention might have been easy, a cure may be impossible: a city isn't easily moved. This human inability to foresee
or to watch out for
long-range consequences may be inherent to our kind, shaped by the millions of years when we lived from hand to mouth by hunting and gathering. It may also be little more than a mix of inertia, greed, and foolishness encouraged by the shape of the social pyramid. The concentration of power at the top of large-scale societies gives the elite a vested interest in the status quo; they continue to prosper in darkening times long after the environment and general populace begin to suffer. (109) — Ronald Wright

When you have a wolf by the ears, it's as hard to let go as to hold on. — Robert Jordan

If we continue to make moral judgements (and whatever we say shall in fact continue) then we must believe that the conscience of man is not a product of nature. — C.S. Lewis