Sludgy Blood Quotes & Sayings

Truly what the Emmys are about are the machine behind them, and Oscars are the same way, where if you have a big enough machine behind you, you get nominated, because truly how many of the best performances actually win ... not many. — Christopher Judge

Okay,' she said.

And that was that. The shortest fight we'd ever had. — Heather Hammonds

I wouldn't accept your help if I was blind and needed guidance across a six-lane highway. Now please go away! — Katie Fforde

On one level, I am a total softie, sort of depressed and afraid of losing the people I love or failing them. To disguise that, there's all this harsh, poop-centric, external swagger, full of nastiness. I'm a cloaking device. — George Saunders

We need to be united, and we all need to understand that we're all capable of achieving the American dream. And, but that has to be something that is self-realized. And also, to demonize someone for achieving the American dream is unfair. — Stacey Dash

Working on the summit of Mauna Kea was comparable to working on the hospital pulmonary ward with sick people sucking on oxygen cylinders. — Steven Magee

It is common enough for those who have any touch of "Mysticism" . . . to be absolutely unable to find any meaning in vocal prayers. — John Chapman

Young Reggie Foljambe to my certain knowledge offered him double what I was giving him, and Alistair Bingham-Reeves, who's got a valet who had been known to press his trousers sideways, used to look at him, when he came to see me, with a kind of glittering, hungry eye which disturbed me deucedly. Bally pirates! — P.G. Wodehouse

In music, sometimes a man will feel that he comes to the edge of breaking out from prison bars of existence, breaking out from the universe altogether. There is a sense that the goal is at hand; that the boundary wall of the universe is crumbling and will be breached at the next moment, when the soul will pass out free into the infinite. — Walter Terence Stace

She'd listened to a lot of these utopian discussions, and it was somehow comforting that Stephen and his friends could never quite work all the kinks out of their plan; that the world was as obstinately unfixable as her life was. — Jonathan Franzen

I live my daydreams in music. — Albert Einstein

We saw a blatant example of this abuse in mid-2014 when a study published by researchers at Facebook and Cornell University revealed that social networks can manipulate the emotions of their users simply by algorithmically altering what they see in the news feed. In a study published by the National Academy of Sciences, Facebook changed the update feeds of 700,000 of its users to show them either more sad or more happy news. The result? Users seeing more negative news felt worse and posted more negative things, the converse being true for those seeing the more happy news. The study's conclusion: "Emotional states can be transferred to others via emotional contagion, leading people to experience the same emotions without their awareness. — Marc Goodman

Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but I don't approve of all this tampering with Weirstones," Millie said. "Swapping them from person to person, creating designer Weir, and all that. You never know what you're going to get. Though I must say, that Jack Swift is a very well-endowed young man. I wonder, though, if he'll be able to reproduce. — Cinda Williams Chima

The prevailing legal and moral views of a time are held not only by those whom they benefit but by those, too, who appear to suffer from them. Their domination is expressed in that fact- that the people from whom they claim sacrifice accept them. — Ludwig Von Mises

It was the fashion of the time, still is, to feel that all actors are neurotic, or they would not be actors. — Gene Tierney