"Page, Arizona, Shithead Capital of Coconino County: any town with thirteen churches and only four bars has got an incipient social problem. That town is looking for trouble."

-- Edward Abbey

#Church Quotes #Four Quotes #Pages Quotes

“I no longer run barefoot.”

Source : "Zola Pieterse finds peace in native land" by Duncan Mackay and Andrew Meldrum, www.theguardian.com. August 9, 2005.
“When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before.”

Source : Any Number Can Play "War and Peace, Fifteen Years After" (1957)
“Ideas are not thoughts; the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.”
“If someone steals your password, you can change it. But if someone steals your thumbprint, you can't get a new thumb. The failure modes are very different.”
“Well, Ma, see... there's this girl." Silence. He checked to make sure the call hadn't been dropped. "You still there, Ma?" A sniffle. "You can't be crying already," he said. "I haven't told you anything about her yet." "It doesn't matter, Nick," his mother said through her tears. "Those are the three words I've been waiting thirty-four years to hear.”
“It would be hypocritical of me to take issue with anything in questionable taste, seeing that I invented bad taste in films.”
“IÂ tried to read the Bible, IÂ did, but it always felt like a much less awesome Lord of the Rings.”
“Pride grows in the human heart like lard on a pig.”

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