I'd been round the world a hundred times and had started to forget where I'd been. I knew I'd been there: it said it on the tour map. I could remember the name of the city but I couldn't remember what it was like - it was a massive blur.
When I heard The Beatles, I said, 'That's it. That's what I want to be. I want to be a Beatle. '
The less said about the putter the better. Here is an instrument of torture, designed by Tantalus and forged in the devil's own smithy.
God save us always,' I said 'from the innocent and the good.
Relax," Chiron told me. "Keep a clear head. And remember, you may be about to prevent the biggest war in human history. " "Relax," I said. "I'm very relaxed.
When we don't speak, said Edgar, we become unbearable, and when we do, we make fools of ourselves.
One that always stings is "Grow up. " And it stings most when you have the suspicion that it is justified, that you have just done somethingchildish and you got nailed for it. It's probably been said to me a few times.
I never said that I wanted to be the only company, is it my fault that I ran my company well? Wouldn't you want the best for your company? Also consider that I started of small.
Everything must not always be said, for that would be folly.
Physician of the Iron Age, Goethe has done his pilgrimage. He took the suffering human race, He read each wound, each weakness clear -- And struck his finger on the place, And said -- Thou ailest here, and here.
All of what the government said is lies upon lies.
Lastly, waging war against good people is bad for the soul. This may not seem important to you now, but it's the most important thing I've said.
For most people their ideal life involves an intimate relationship with another person; one which often has a sexual basis. But there's no logic about it; why shouldn't people choose to live together with someone they just like? 'Of course' if we were too unquestioning about it, and we said 'well, that person has got to be someone of the opposite sex, and it's got to be for life, and divorce is terrible', then we're stuck. But if you don't recognize the importance that kind of bond has for human beings - you can't really understand what is needed to live a good life.
Tis said that persons living on annuities Are longer lived than others.
Free women," said Anna, wryly. She added, with an anger new to Molly, so that she earned another quick scrutinizing glance from her friend: "They still define us in terms of relationships with men, even the best of them.
I'm more Jewish than you think I am. . . I read the part of the Bible that said the Jews are God's chosen people.
It can be said of optimism that while sometimes mistaken, it is never sadly mistaken.
So I rang up a local building firm, I said 'I want a skip outside my house. ' He said 'I'm not stopping you. '
My laboratory,' I said, experimentally, drawing out each syllable. 'Why is it that saying it like that always makes me want to follow it with 'mwoo-hah-hah-hahhhhh'? ' 'You were overexposed to Hammer Films as a child?' - Harry Dresden & Bob the Skull, Changes, Jim Butcher
In fact, quite a lot of what I do has to do with sound texture, and, you can't notate that. You can't notate the sound of "St. Elmo's Fire. " There's no way of writing that down. That's because musical notation arose at a time when sound textures were limited. If you said violins and woodwind that defined the sound texture; if I say synthesizer and guitar it means nothing - you're talking about 28,000 variables.