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The monstrous thing is not that men have created roses out of this dung heap, but that, for some reason or other, they should want roses.
The Llama is a woolly sort of fleecy hairy goat, with an indolent expression and an undulating throat; like an unsuccessful literary man.
If antiquity be the only test of nobility, then cheese is a very noble thing ... The lineage of cheese is demonstrably beyond all record.
I think it's cultural racism more than anything, which dovetails with actual racism, but the cultural racism to me is even more shocking.
I used to think that the feeling of alienation that I would have was just me, but I realise that it's also a symptom of the modern world.
The Arab Spring is a powerful and compelling response not only to an age of tyranny but also to the remnant chains of imperial influence.
This is the part in the movie where that guy says, "Zombies? What zombies?" just before they eat his brains. I don't want to be that guy.
Being infected, being a vampire, it’ s always you. Maybe it’ s more you than ever before. It’ s you as you always were, deep down inside.
Humans are humans because we are able to communicate with each other and to organize to do things together that we can't do individually.
In the broad sense design means thinking about what the function or purpose of things or processes are, and translating that into action.
Having a point to start is important. You know that when you decide to write something it's like a commitment. It's like falling in love.
You don't know how to talk to people you don't like. Don't love, really. You can't live in the world with such strong likes and dislikes.
A confessional passage has probably never been written that didn't stink a little bit of the writer's pride in having given up his pride.
In every other science fiction series, humans are at the top of the food chain. In the 'Babylon 5' universe, they're in the bottom third.
Did Alan Moore get screwed on his contract? Of course. Lots of people get screwed, but we still have Spider-Man and lots of other heroes.
If you're referring to the incident with the dragon, I was barely involved. All I did was give your uncle a little nudge out of the door.
For if joyful is the fountain that rises in the sun, its springs are in the wells of sorrow unfathomable at the foundations of the Earth.
Without the high and noble the simple and vulgar is utterly mean; and without the simple and ordinary the noble and heroic is meaningless
I've always been impressed that we are here, surviving, because of the indomitable courage of quite small people against impossible odds.
A few melancholy birds were pipping and wailing, until the round red sun sank slowly into the western shadows; then an empty silence fell
It seems to limit you; when you're working in an office, you're a creature in a small cell under somebody's supervision and surveillance.
The body is the servant of the mind. It obeys the operations of the mind, whether they be deliberately chosen or automatically expressed.
We know have the power of God in many ways: the atomic bomb, the ability to create life in a test tube, cloning, artificial intelligence.
That's what ever great writer, I believe, has done over the course of time - is they've figured out new ways of telling the same stories.
By bringing together what we know and what we don't know through analogy, metaphorical thinking strikes the spark that ignites discovery.
Sometimes it seemed like the truth was a bandy-legged soul who dashed from one side of the world to the other and I could never find him.
When we turn from our sin, and have the blessed forgiveness of the Almighty, then we can ask Him to run things, and let Him be in charge.
Not a hundredth part of the thoughts in my head have ever been or ever will be spoken or written — as long as I keep my senses, at least.
Last time you called me late at night you were naked and chained to your shower curtain rod. I hope this isn't going to be disappointing.
If I didn't know better, I'd think you were trying to get me drunk," I said to Ranger. "Not drunk," Ranger said. "Just relaxed and naked.
How was your day?" Morelli asked me. "Oh, you know, the usual. Stole a truck. Blew up a building, and brought seven monkeys home with me.
Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible.
Everything on earth has happened before, nothing is new, but woe to the lovers who fail to discover a fresh blossom in every future kiss.
I fell in love once, if love be that cruelty which takes us straight to the gates of Paradise only to remind us they are closed for ever.
Creativity is on the side of health - it isn't the thing that drives us mad; it is the capacity in us that tries to save us from madness.
We bury things so deep we no longer remember there was anything to bury. Our bodies remember. Our neurotic states remember. But we don't.
Teaching is a calling too. And I've always thought that teachers in their way are holy - angels leading their flocks out of the darkness.
More and more NFL players have been willing their bodies to science so that their brains can be studied even if they die of other causes.
A cockroach likely has no less brainpower than a butterfly, but we're quicker to deny it consciousness because it's a species we dislike.
I want a house that has got over all its troubles; I don't want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and inexperienced house.
A cat's got her own opinion of human beings. She don't say much, but you can tell enough to make you anxious not to hear the whole of it.
She laughed when there was no joke. She danced when there was no music. She had no friends, yet she was the friendliest person in school.
I have to tell you I love living in a world without clocks. The shackles are gone. I’m a puppy unleashed in a meadow of time. -- Stargirl
I am firm in my belief that a teacher lives on and on through his students. Good teaching is forever and the and the teacher is immortal.
I take with me Kentucky, embedded in my brain and heart, in my flesh and bone and blood. Since I am Kentucky, and Kentucky is part of me.
Intelligence is the capacity to perceive the essential, the what is; and to awaken this capacity, in oneself and in others, is education.
I look for a sign. Where to go next. you never know when you'll get one. Even the most faithless among us are waiting to be proven wrong.
I've always been a writer who tackles complex themes and risky subjects - I write about the things that people think but never say aloud.
I feel the political failings of the U.S.A. are presidential in length, but the aspirant narrative of the States is millennial in length.
Good steel bends, but never breaks. Good steel stays always sharp and ready. Good steel feels no pain, no pity, and above all, no remorse