Over periods of 10,000 years the distinctions between Western and Eastern and African cultures lose all meaning. Over a time span of 100,000 years we are all Africans. And over a time span of 300 million years we are all amphibians, waddling uncertainly out of dried-up ponds onto the alien and hostile land.
You should have to pass an IQ test before you breed. You have to take a driving test to operate vehicles and an sat test to get into college. So why dont you have to take some sort of test before you give birth to children? When I am President, thats the first rule I will institute.
Bod walked back into the graveyard and up the hill, until he reached the Frobisher mausoleum. He did not enter it. He climbed up the side of the building, using the thick ivy root as a foothold, and he pulled himself up onto the stone roof, where he sat and thought looking out at the world of moving things beyond the graveyard, and he remembered the way Scarlett had held him and how safe he felt, if only for a moment, and how fine it would be to walk safely in the lands beyond the graveyard, and how good it was to be master of his own small world.
Billy's agony, mainly proceeding from a generous young heart's virgin experience of the diabolical incarnate and effective in some men: the tension of that agony was over now.
I think you're always prepared to listen to people's points of view, but when they're not working you've got to speak up as well. I think social comment is very much part of what the Rolling Stones have always done.
The drum major instinct is real. And you know what else it causes to happen? It often causes us to live above our means.
I do believe that where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence I would advise violence.
I have some road rage inside of me. Traffic, especially in L. A., is a pet peeve of mine.
When peace comes, we will perhaps in time be able to forgive the Arabs for killing our sons, but it will be harder for us to forgive them for having forced us to kill their sons.
Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They are not like aches or wounds; they are more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there is not enough material.