"What use is it to endure the Dutch Rubs and Indian Rope Burns that are politics if you can't obtain mastery over people and give them noogies back?"

-- P. J. O'Rourke

#People Quotes #Giving Quotes #Rope Quotes

“If love were a product, the queue at the faulty goods desk would stretch right round the universe and back. It doesn't work properly. The seams come apart and it's full of powdered glass.”
“I'm a painter, that's what I love to do first and foremost.”

Source : Source: www.hiphopcanada.com
“The fifth century BC historian Herodotus called Egypt â€˜the gift of the Nileâ€™. The Egyptians themselves went a lot further. They claimed that their sacred river had its source among the stars.”

Source : Robert Bauval (2007). “The Egypt Code”, p.33, Red Wheel Weiser
“The current state of knowledge is a moment in history, changing just as rapidly as the state of knowledge in the past has ever changed and, in many instances, more rapidly.”

Source : Ludwik Fleck (2012). “Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact”, p.54, University of Chicago Press
“Photography is my method for defining the confusing world that rushes constantly toward me. It is my defensive attempt to reduce our daily chaos to a set of understandable images.”
“Since I was a kid, I could make up stories, I could make up funny jokes and I could always do it. When I'm walking down the street or having dinner, ideas will hit me, and I write them down on matchbooks or napkins and throw them in the draw.”
“The biggest issue about the height factor is the bias that the NFL has about it,”
“Cities have often been compared to language: you can read a city, it's said, as you read a book. But the metaphor can be inverted. The journeys we make during the reading of a book trace out, in some way, the private spaces we inhabit. There are texts that will always be our dead-end streets; fragments that will be bridges; words that will be like the scaffolding that protects fragile constructions.”

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