Tenesmus Quotes & Sayings

With Presley as catalyst, the teenagers of America let out a collective wail, initiating the liberation of felt experience that would find its culmination in the following decade. This rupture transformed the way a whole generation thought about their most intimate selves: their bodies and minds, their sexuality, their race, and their basic mode of relating to the world. In fact, to a large degree, we still live in the space that Presley and his contemporaries cleaved into the darkness, to employ a Jamesian trope.[149] — Grant Maxwell

Did I ever think at the time, when I was with the Alouettes and the Chicago Blitz, that I would be head-coaching a team in the Super Bowl? It would be hard to believe. Is it a dream come true? Yes. — Marv Levy

The shuffle only demonstrated people's fatuous belief in a political cure for a human condition. — Brian Aldiss

Destroying something, any idiot can do. Creating needs intelligence. — Rajneesh

Revenge is fever in our own blood, to be cured only by letting the blood of another; but the remedy too often produces a relapse, which is remorse
a malady far more dreadful than the first disease, because it is incurable. — Charles Caleb Colton

That was Mahogany!! — Suzanne Collins

I like normal stuff people fear - like spiders and heights. I'm frightened by the unknown, by things that are hard to figure out and get a grip on. — Haley Joel Osment

May you walk on the path of light. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Goodness ... You got to make it out of badness ... Because there isn't anything else to make it out of. — Robert Penn Warren

A man never feels more important than when he receives a telegram containing more than ten words. — George Ade

Largely this is a class thing - writers tend to be cosseted little middle-class kiddies who think that the world owes them a royalty cheque. But just doing it - being in your room for years on end, locked in your head, alone with invented ghosts - it weakens and softens the body. And I know I can't just live in my head. — Tony Parsons

How does this text fit into the whole Bible? How does it ultimately connect to the gospel of Jesus? — Joe Hoagland