Skinful Delights Quotes & Sayings

I'm very disciplined, but the one thing that I have addictive behavior about is the Internet. — Dani Shapiro

We can trace the communitarian fantasy that lies at the root of all humanism back to the model of a literary society, in which participation through reading the canon reveals a common love of inspiring messages. At the heart of humanism so understood we discover a cult or club fantasy: the dream of the portentous solidarity of those who have been chosen to be allowed to read. In the ancient world - indeed, until the dawn of the modern nation-states - the power of reading actually did mean something like membership of a secret elite; linguistic knowledge once counted in many places as the provenance of sorcery. In Middle English the word 'glamour' developed out of the word 'grammar'. The person who could read would be thought easily capable of other impossibilities. — Peter Sloterdijk

Man against man can only take revenge but cannot punish — Santosh Avvannavar

Become the world's most thoughtful friend. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

A woman can get anywhere a dick gets, and usually twice as fast. — Carlie St. George

It's a great thing when you can show that you've been successful and that you've made a lot of money and that you've employed a lot of people. — Donald Trump

Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great and original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished. — William Wordsworth

I think it perfectly just, that he who, from the love of experiment, quits an approved for an uncertain practice, should suffer the full penalty of Egyptian law against medical innovation; as I would consign to the pillory, the wretch, who out of regard to his character, that is, to his fees, should follow the routine, when, from constant experience he is sure that his patient will die under it, provided any, not inhuman, deviation would give his patient a chance. — Thomas Beddoes

I plowed fields with horses and worked as a hired hand in high school for 50 cents a day. — Stewart Udall

You cannot separate passion from pathology any more than you can separate a person's spirit from his body. — Richard Selzer

I was interested in politics very much when I was growing up, and that's what I think I really wanted to be - either a senator, or a Supreme Court Justice, and I always wanted to be a lawyer. — Michael Riedel