Yllary Quotes & Sayings

In Sing Sing Prison, in a ghastly white room stands a chair. Its parts are heavy joinings of oak, riveted and screwed together; its strong legs fastened to the floor with teeth and claws of steel. It bites into the marrow of men with fangs of fire. For this is the faldstool of bloody human justice, the prayer-chair of man's vengeance upon man. Into it are strapped ... men who have killed other men. In it, for a high moral purpose, erring human lives are shocked across the barrier into night and the grave. - Edward H. Smith (1918) — Yasmin Tirado-Chiodini

She had a penetrating sort of laugh. Rather like a train going into a tunnel. — P.G. Wodehouse

Miracles have no claim whatever to the character of historical facts and are wholly invalid as evidence of any revelation. — John Stuart Mill

I heard you laughing,' Jack said. He wanted to say something about the quality of that terrible laughter, but he did not know how to begin. So he said, ' I've never heard anyone laugh like you do. — Isobelle Carmody

I do think that men can forget a lost love quickly. I know that women would find it much harder. — Jane Austen

I think there's bipartisan support in the Senate to pass a good reform bill. — Don Nickles

In every exchange, Obi-Wan gave ground. It was his way. — Matthew Woodring Stover

While you're doing it, you don't really know what you're doing. — Tony Curtis

The term 'steampunk' itself, now a badge of honor, began as a putdown, a joke. But like 'Big Bang' in cosmology, the diss became the standard. — Paul Di Filippo

There are a range of women not represented in the Western fairy tale tradition. Husband-beaters are particularly interesting, as well as male pederasts. Children are often told in The Arabian Nights, "This man likes to abduct boys, be careful of him." These issues are explored through the medium of the stories, but actually the architecture of the book is such that there are many examples of women who are loyal, brave, devoted - especially to their lovers. — Marina Warner

I've lost my faith in science. — Bette Davis