. . . to the Bleekmen, we Earthmen may very well be hypomanic types, whizzing about at enormous velocity, expending huge amounts of energy over nothing at all.
Drawing is simply another way of seeing, which we don't really do as adults, says cartoonist Chris Ware. We're all going around in a cloud of remembrance and anxiety, he says, and the act of drawing...
Every person who was hurt was only hurting because they loved someone.
It made him proud that 29 months in the service had not blunted his genius for ineptitude.
I'm not much but I'm all I have.
Ladies, just a little more virginity, if you don't mind.' - Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, 1853-1917 For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever...
They weren't a bad family. At least they loved one another, cared for one another. Most of the time anyway.
Life for life, Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe. - Exodus, 21:23
You wouldn't be normal if you were never afraid. Even the bravest men experience fear. One of the biggest jobs we all face in combat is to overcome fear.
Not aging is not the same as living
I lived," Dor said, "but I was not alive.
We're gonna make up for that. We're gonna live a long time together.
No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity. - William Shakespeare Richard III {Act I, scene ii} Protection is not a principle but an expedient. - Benjamin Disraeli, 1804-1881
Success, no matter how you define it, is attainable only by persuading another person-a boss, a client, a colleague, a subordinate, a friend or loved one-to give you what you want.
Haven't you got anything humorous that stays away from waters and valleys and God? I'd like to keep away from the subject of religion altogether if we can."The chaplain was apologetic. "I'm sorry,...
When you consider the opportunity and power He had to really do a job, and then look at the stupid, ugly little mess He made of it instead, His sheer incompetence is almost staggering.
Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and suicide. With failure comes...
She closed her eyes as his full weight stretched over her. They fit together perfectly and as they clung together her woman's body felt that at last she had found the man's bones from which she'd been...
Send that, he told her. Sign it, et cetera. Work the sentences, if you wish, so that they will mean something. As she started from the office he added, Or so that they mean nothing. Whichever you...
Very few people imagine their own future accurately. And then they're often pleasantly surprised.
Von Igelfeld was not sure. He remembered reading that Hume believed that our minds vibrated in sympathy, and that this ability โ to vibrate in unison with one another โ was the origin of the...
A man who can take anything will find most things unsatisfying.
The hands of a clock will find their way home.
There are no random acts.
How do people choose their final words? Do they realize their gravity? Are they fated to be wise?
What will you do with the time you have left?
Once, lovers on faraway shores sat by candlelight and dipped ink to parchment, writing words that could not be erased. They took an evening to compose their thoughts, maybe the next evening as well.
There is no idea so bad that it cannot be made to look brilliant with the proper application of fonts and color.
The frog is almost five hundred million years old. Could you really say with much certainty that America, with all its strength and prosperity, with its fighting man that is second to none, and with...
I'll tell you what justice is. Justice is a knee in the gut from the floor on the chin at night sneaky with a knife brought up down on the magazine of a battleship sandbagged underhanded in the dark...
Remind thyself that he whom thou lovest is mortal ย that what thou lovest is not thine own; it is given thee for the present, no
His thoughts, Helio said, are as clear as plastic to me, and mine likewise to him. We are both prisoners, Mister, in a hostile land. At that Arnie laughed loud and long. Truth always amuses the...
A man driven by rage may stumble, in his passion, onto truth.
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...
Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
if you don't understand something, you can't approximate it. You're really just guessing.
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....
