"I swing my arms to loosen myself up. Place my fists on my hips. then drop them to my sides. Saliva's filling my mouth at a ridiculous rate and i feel vomit at the back of my throat. I swallow hard and open my lips so I can get the stupid line out and go hide in the woods and-that's when i start crying."

-- Suzanne Collins

#Stupid Quotes #Swings Quotes #Mouths Quotes

“Once we know that people are human and have some Homer Simpson in them, then there's a lot that can be done to manipulate them.”

Source : "Glenn Beck: Are You a Radical?". "Glenn Beck", www.foxnews.com. September 21, 2010.
“Science seeks the truth. And it does not discriminate. For better or worse it finds things out. Science is humble. It knows what it knows and it knows what it doesnâ€™t know. It bases its conclusions and beliefs on hard evidence -Â- evidence that is constantly updated and upgraded. It doesnâ€™t get offended when new facts come along. It embraces the body of knowledge. It doesnâ€™t hold on to medieval practices because they are tradition.”

Source : "Ricky Gervais: Why I’m an Atheist" by Ricky Gervais, blogs.wsj.com. December 19, 2010.
“Let no man of us budge one step, and let slaveholders come to beat us from our country. America is more our country, than it is the whites-we have enriched it with our blood and tears. The greatest riches in all America have arisen from our blood and tears.”

Source : David Walker (1965). “David Walker's Appeal: In Four Articles, Together with a Preamble, to the Coloured Citizens of the World, But in Particular, and Very Expressly, to Those of the United States of America”
“I don't think we realise just how fast we go until you stop for a minute and realise just how loud and how hectic your life is, and how easily distracted you can get.”
“The work of today is the history of tomorrow, and we are its makers.”
“I had some hesitations about philosophy because, if you worked out a philosophical theory, it was hard to know whether you were going to be able to prove it or whether other theories had just as good a claim on belief.”
“I'm pro-gay marriage. I don't believe that that's a sin.”
“I can laugh at peasants and townies chained all their lives to a tiny corner of the earth while I roam its face and see its wonders, but when I go down, there will be no child to carry my name, no family to mourn me save my comrades, no one to remember, no one to raise a marker over my cold bit of ground.”

Source : Glen Cook (2007). “Chronicles of the Black Company”, p.243, Macmillan

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