Vacation Countdown Quotes & Sayings

Acts have consequences, Dixon, they must. These Louts believe all's right now,
that they are free to get on with Lives that to them are no doubt important,
with no Glimmer at all of the Debt they have taken on. That is what I smell'd,
Lethe-Water. One of the things the newly-born forget, is how terrible its Taste, and Smell. In Time, these People are able to forget ev'rything. Be willing but to wait a little, and ye may gull them again and again, however ye wish,
even unto their own Dissolution. In America, as I apprehend, Time is the true River that runs 'round Hell. — Thomas Pynchon

I've loved you since the day Lou brought you home. I hated myself, but I couldn't stop the way I felt. I never would have touched you, I never would have told you. But when you kissed me that night, you suddenly handed me everything I'd ever wanted. — Jennifer Skully

A scoundrel is an evil heliotrope turning always in the direction of the most powerful. — Umberto Eco

He was in love with her, but he had no idea what to do about it. — Katy Regnery

Lights flicker, flash, dim. I fall into the blackness. — Cynthia Sax

A nation cannot afford to do a mean thing. — Charles Sumner

Money is usually attracted, not pursued. — Jim Rohn

Meanwhile the fact that the connection with the activity of memory in ordinary life is for the moment lost is of less importance than the reverse, namely, that this connection with the complications and fluctuations of life is necessarily still a too close one. — Hermann Ebbinghaus

For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty would become literate and would learn to think for themselves; and when once they had done this, they would sooner or later realise that the privileged minority had no function, and they would sweep it away. In the long run, a hierarchical society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance. — George Orwell

It's because of this fundamental shift towards user-generated information that people will listen more to other people than to traditional resources. — Eric Schmidt

My sister was the one who told me where babies come from. My sister was also the one who laughed when I immediately asked her where babies go to. — Stephen Chbosky

If you begin to have a relationship where you're doing what the guards want, and once you're out you will see that as a treason, a treason to your country, a treason to yourself, a treason to everybody, so you have to be very cautious on what is the perspective you're looking at yourself, and you have always to see yourself like from the outside. — Ingrid Betancourt

Rocker trumps racer every time. Hands down. — K. Bromberg

The move to creating stories was a natural progression for me, but the most pivotal time was probably in 6th grade: That year, a friend introduced me to the stories of Ray Bradbury, and a student teacher introduced me to creative writing. — Lynn Flewelling