13 posts tagged “quote”

"Coolest f-word ever deserves a fucking shout! I mean, Why can't all decent men and women call themselves feminists? Out of respect for those who fought for this." -Ani Difranco, Grand Canyon

“Success isn’t a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.”

- Arnold H. Glasow

"When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion."
                         -C.P. Snow

"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making
exciting discoveries."
-A. A. Milne

I hate eels. They're slimy and scary and gross. A few years ago, when we were out camping at the same place we went to in June, we had borrowed a boat that had a slow leak. It wasn't a big deal, just the bottom got filled with water and you had to bale it out quite often. We weren't in danger on sinking or anything. Anyway, the boyfriend was fishing and caught an eel. He didn't want to loose his hook, so pulled his line in and attempted to hold the eel so he could get his hook back. I don't remember if the line broke or if he got the hook out but the eel was too slippery and it squirmed out of his hand, but it ended up in the boat. which was just under ankle deep in water. And guess where it swam? Right to where my feet were. II was pretty quick to pull my feet up and put them on the side of the boat, but needless to say, I was not impressed.

Anyway, my story doesn't really have a point, except to say that I really, really dislike eels. And so I can share with you a part of the book I'm reading, Brother Grimm by Craig Russell.

(I feel that I should point out that, although I don't find the following overly graphic or offensive, others might. So If you think you might be one of those people, stop reading now. There, you've been warned.)

  But it was in the devastation of the face that the true horror lay. The flesh around the eye sockets and mouth was ripped and ragged. Bone gleamed through flaps of empurpled skin and pink flesh. The victim's teeth grinned a lipless grin.
  "My God...What the hell happened to his face?" asked Fabel
  "Eels," said the Wasserschutz Kommissar. "They always go for a wound first. That's why I'm guessing the eyes had been removed before he was dumped.The eels did the rest. [...]

Now I hate eels just a little bit more.
 

"Computers are somewhere between a science and a black art. "
-Co-worker, to a customer

"I must be the author of my own salvation."

-LAURIE H. HUSTER
From Invictus (speech from Johannus to Nicholas, Act III) 

"If the world were a logical place, men would ride side-saddle."
-Rita Mae Brown

"I believe humans get a lot done, not because we're smart, but because we have thumbs so we can make coffee."

Pouring a Fresh Cup of Brewed Coffee (Isolated)

“If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we are not really living.”
                     - Gail Sheehy