"I think I'm comfortable making myself, or my speaker, larger than life if I can then cut myself off at the ankles. The way, in "My Major Prize," the speaker does this drippy performance of sadness and poetry for some unnamed prize committee, only he lets us know that it's all a wry game."

-- Randall Mann

#Sadness Quotes #Cutting Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.”

Source : James A. Michener (2014). “Space: A Novel”, p.537, Dial Press
“We were trying to get all of the planes down out of the sky. And we watched as the towers of the World Trade Center collapsed - something no one expected and anticipated. And you could sit there and see and be aware that thousands of people were at that moment being killed as a result of the terrorist attacks that struck the United States.”
“I used to be a mean maniac. Someone once threw a firecracker at a show and I jumped off the side of the stage and whacked 'em on the side of the head.”
“The purpose of terrorism is to terrorize. It's to change the behavior of the people that are being terrorized.”
“The gospel is NOT preached if Christ is not preached.”
“I've made it a rule never to drink by daylight and never to refuse a drink after dark.”
“Dating is really hard because everyone puts on a front. It's really difficult to see who is who, so it is important to be yourself.”
“It's terrible, the way obese children and adults are treated in this country [USA]. And I'm not leaving this Earth until that is changed.”

You may also like: