Unshucked Baked Quotes & Sayings

Modern education is competitive, nationalistic and separative. It has trained the child to regard material values as of major importance, to believe that his nation is also of major importance and superior to other nations and peoples. The general level of world information is high but usually biased, influenced by national prejudices, serving to make us citizens of our nation but not of the world. — Albert Einstein

From that moment on I was her butch and she was my femme. — Leslie Feinberg

One of my friends is Snake from Skid Row. — Steve Brown

It's well known that he who returns never left — Pablo Neruda

The Machine is the friend of ideas and the enemy of superstition: the Machine is omnipotent, eternal; blessed is the Machine. — E. M. Forster

If only one in 1,000 people that I talk to goes on to write a good book, that's one more good book that I've helped along ... and maybe it will be a book I love myself five or 10 years down the line. — Garth Nix

After all, what is hell but the eternal absence of God? To exist in a hellish state is to be denied forever the promise of hope, of redemption, of love. To those who have been forsaken, hell has no geography. — John Connolly

Always leave a sinking ship. There's no virtue in hanging on to losers. And stocks don't have feelings. — Nancy Dunnan

Every game has rules. Life's a game that has its respective rules; obey the rules, win the game! — Israelmore Ayivor

... he was doing a breath hydrogen test. If you know the amount of hydrogen someone is exhaling orally, it's a simple matter to extrapolate the amount they're exhaling rectally. This is because a fixed percentage of hydrogen produced in the colon is absorbed into the blood and, and when it reaches the lungs, exhaled. The breath hydrogen test has given flatus researchers a simple, consistent measure of gas production that does not require the subject to fart into a balloon. — Mary Roach