“In what terms should we think of these beings, nonhuman yet possessing so very many human-like characteristics? How should we treat them? Surely we should treat them with the same consideration and kindness as we show to other humans; and as we recognize human rights, so too should we recognize the rights of the great apes? Yes.”
― Jane Goodall
“The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.”
― Emily Dickinson
As the plane lands in Glasgow airport, passengers are reminded to set their watch back, 25 years.
Frankie Boyle
“America, why are your libraries full of tears?”
― Allen Ginsberg
"I am not a heavy drinker. I can sometimes go for hours without touching a drop."
-- Noël Coward
The terrible thing about dying over in Ireland is you miss your own wake. It's the best day of your life.
You've paid for everything and you can't join in. Mind you if you did you'd be drinking on your own.
Dave Allen.
@eurocelticyankee,
I’m not Irish, but I told my wife to have a big party with our family and friends instead of a funeral. I want to be cremated and my ashes dispursed in the Pacific Ocean, so I can continue my travels.
“Laughter is poison to fear.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
"To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong." -Joseph Chilton Pearce
The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
- W. E. B. Du Bois
The English language doesn't suit my soul. sometimes I think the English language
is like a brick wall between you and me and the word ''****'' is my chisel.
- Tommy Tiernan.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
- Arlo Guthrie
“You see, in my view a writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent, because everything she does is golden. In my view a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway."
[Becoming a Writer/ The List, O Magazine, November 2009]”
― Junot Diaz
Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time. Rev 12:12
Th-th-th-th That's all Folks!
P. Pig.
Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a
damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily
pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral
I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me,
that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately
stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off- then, I
account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale
~Herman Melville
I always think of this passage on days like this: damp, drizzly November days.
“I propose that the forces of corporate totalitarianism are deliberately destroying this
entire world in order to sell their simulated version of it back to us at a profit.”
― Diane Harvey
“It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
"People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election." -Otto von Bismarck
