Winepress Bible Quotes & Sayings

Im's offspring stare at stars and make clocks that calculate useless happenings like the angle of a hawk's claws as it strikes its prey. They demonstrate their contraptions and everyone marvels. My children get drunk, confuse a herd of cows with an enemy regiment, and slaughter the lot, screaming like lunatics until the entire army panics. — Ilona Andrews

A lot of men are wankers cause they don't mind bad sex, but for a woman bad sex is far worse than no sex at all. — Irvine Welsh

Never done an explosion, but I have had explosive diarrhea, and that was very, very real. Good thing I have my trailer. — Steven Soderbergh

Dear Sir, poor sir, brave sir." he read, "You are an experiment by the Creator of the Universe. You are the only creature in the entire Universe who has free will. You are the only one who has to figure out what to do next - and why. Everybody else is a robot, a machine. Some persons seem to like you, and others seem to hate you, and you must wonder why. They are simply liking machines and hating machines. You are pooped and demoralized, " read Dwayne. "Why wouldn't you be? Of course it is exhausting, having to reason all the time in a universe which wasn't meant to be reasonable. — Kurt Vonnegut

In Edmund Gosse, Agnes Smedley, Geoffrey Wolff, we have a set of memoirists whose work records a steadily changing idea of the emergent self. But for each of them a flash of insight illuminating that idea grew out of the struggle to clarify one's own formative experience; and in each case the strength and beauty of the writing lie in the power of concentration with which this insight is pursued, and made to become the the writer's organizing principle. That principle at work is what makes a memoir literature rather than testament. — Vivian Gornick

It is essential that justice be done, it is equally vital that justice not be confused with revenge, for the two are wholly different. — Oscar Arias

You're tough enough to take it." "Everything." Every rough, raw part of him, head to toe. Body and soul. — Kit Rocha

I felt shame for living in a nation of unprecedented prosperity-a nation that spends a smaller percentage of income on food than any other civilization has in human history-but in the name of affordability treats the animals it eats with cruelty so extreme it would be illegal if inflicted on a dog. — Jonathan Safran Foer

War is a racket. It always has been ... A few profit - and the many pay. But there is a way to stop it. You can't end it by disarmament conferences. You can't eliminate it by peace parleys at Geneva. Well-meaning but impractical groups can't wipe it out by resolutions. It can be smashed effectively only by taking the profit out of war. — Smedley Butler

Every creative person, and I think probably every other person, faces resistance when they are trying to create something good ... The harder the resistance, the more important the task must be. — Donald Miller

Oh, no. A story. This was perhaps too maudlin and too much for the early hour, but handsome and heart-broken young men could occasionally be indulged. — Cassandra Clare

Seriously," Ben said. "This guy sounds like an alcoholic Kermit the Frog with throat cancer — Anonymous

Nobody can be perfect unless he admits his faults, but if he has faults how can he be perfect? — Laurence J. Peter

People are not the only interesting organism on earth. From the point of view of scientific or commercial value, there are lots of interesting organisms. — Daniel Nathans