Poke gave him life. Ender gave it meaning.
Why don't you take a flying fuck at a rolling donut?
Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.
Old age ain't no place for sissies," actress Bette Davis"
One had to know Plato personally to appreciate the love he suppressed puritanically for the music, poetry, and drama he censured in his philosophy and censored in his model communities. They moved him...
It's the Joshua tree's struggle that gives it its beauty.
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
He was going to live forever, or die in the attempt.
Nothing often poses in men as wisdom. Spring
It seemed to Jack that if an ordinary human being, his own son, no one particular, could have this purity of mind, then perhaps the isolated deeds of virtue at which people marveled in later life were...
It was time for tea as it so often was.
Are you mad?' Always a trickier question than it looks.
I need you to be clever, Bean. I need you to think of solutions to problems we haven't seen yet. I want you to try things that no one has ever tried because they're absolutely stupid.
A man can see by starlight, if he takes the time.
It takes courage to die for a cause, but also to live for one.
...{A}nything worth dying for ... is certainly worth living for.
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.
Converstations with a mother of five are education in patience.
No single thing abides; and all things are fucked up.
.....it's hard to describe a psychosoteric battle at close quarters..... Think of those tennis-ball firing machines, but loaded with hand-grenades trapped in a shipping container, on a ship caught in...
There is only one life; it is therefore perfect.
I've missed you, Frank.''I haven't breathed since you left.
Alcohol provokes stupidity; opium provokes wisdom.
You got cell phones, you got computers, you got antibiotics, medicines, hospitals. And you say the old ways are better?
He could not make them understand that he was a crotchety old fogey of twenty-eight, that he belonged to another generation, another era, another world, that having a good time bored him and was not...
It's not lies or anything, just truths I made up.
To kill what you'd cherish & cure," he opined, "that seems to be the way of things.
The weak are meat the strong do eat.
Endurance, after all, was a kind of victory; a kind of heroism, too.
He felt awkward because she was going to murder him.
But I think if any song can touch the heart, then one should value it.
A little more than kin, a little less than kind.
In racy Victorian novels, beware of young widows.
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....
