Caryl Rivers famous quotes

Smell is the closest thing human beings have to a time machine.
-- Caryl Rivers

#Smell #Machines #Time Machine

One of the great inventions of the twentieth century was the studied, methodical engineering of myth for political ends.
-- Caryl Rivers

#Engineering #Political #Invention

I enjoy the process of writing. The torment comes in getting my bottom on the chair and in front of the typewriter.
-- Caryl Rivers

#Writing #Typewriters #Chairs

What we've done, it seems to me, is allow women to get older, but not to age.
-- Caryl Rivers

#Age #Done #Aging

Freedom is much more complicated than servitude.
-- Caryl Rivers

#Freedom #Complicated #Servitude

Guilt implanted at a tender age is not easy to destroy. A weed, it sprouts in unexpected places.
-- Caryl Rivers

#Weed #Guilt #Age

[On the Barbie doll:] Her values, while somewhat Yuppified, are not so bad. Look at GI Joe. His only wardrobe is fatigues, he spends all his time trying to kill people, or getting his own innards splashed across the landscape. His big hobby is death.
-- Caryl Rivers

#People #Barbie #Trying

Men have jobs, while women have Roles: Mother, Wife, Goddess, Temptress, etc. That's probably why it's so hard for women to rewrite the rules. You're not just changing a job description, but an ancient myth. You're revising the Bible, Poetry, Legend and Psychoanalytic Scripture.
-- Caryl Rivers

#Mother #Jobs #Men

Technology has allowed the world of men in our society to separate itself from the sight and the sounds of killing; from the horror of it, but not from the killing. It must be easy to kill from a roomful of fluorescent lights and wash-and-wear shirts.
-- Caryl Rivers

#Technology #Men #Light

When I got inside, I just sort of stood there. There's nothing stranger than the smell of someone else's house. The scent goes right to your stomach. Mary's house smelled like lemon furniture polish and oatmeal cookies and logs in a fireplace. For some reason it made me want to curl up in the fetal position. I could have slept right there on their kitchen table.

Many pilots of the time were the opinion that a fighter pilot in a closed cockpit was an impossible thing, because you should smell the enemy. You could smell them because of the oil they were burning.

Well, have you ever thought of bathing?' I asked, turning away. 'No one wants to hire a wizard who smells worse than their outhouse. And who knows what creatures are living in that hair?

There is a peculiar burning odor in the room, like explosives. the kitchen fills with smoke and the hot, sweet, ashy smell of scorched cookies. The war has begun.

To fight, we must have oil for our machine.

Male sexual response is far brisker and more automatic. It is triggered easily by things - like putting a quarter in a vending machine.

I don't know if Jerry Lawler got here in a plane, or a time machine.

I see the human being is an incredible machine, totally undiscovered in many ways. Every one of us has a hidden tank of energy that comes out when it is needed.

I have had the feeling that a properly constructed flying-machine should be capable of being flown as a kite; and conversely, that a properly constructed kite should be capable of use as a flying-machine when driven by its own propellers.

Books are a time machine.