"Reverence for the Supreme Being, based upon His supposed resemblance to man. The pig is taught by sermons and epistles / To think the God of Swine has snout and bristles."

-- Ambrose Bierce

#Men Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Pigs Quotes

“In our culture, the Oedipal drama succeeds in making us assume either a male or female sexual position. Certainly this is an ancient construct that's rapidly coming apart.”

Source : Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. August 10, 2012.
“I look at being an actress as being like a mummy: You're bandaged up and preserved as soon as you start making other people money.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“It is a well-known experience that the only truly enjoyable and profitable way of studying mathematics is the method of "filling in details" by one's own efforts.”

Source : "Applied Analysis" by Cornelius Lanczos, Prentice-Hall, 1956.
“As for me, I know nothing else but miracles, Whether I walk the streets of Manhattan, Or dart my sight over the roofs of houses toward the sky, Or wade with naked feet along the beach just in the edge of the water, Or stand under the trees in the woods, Or talk by day with any one I love, Or sleep in bed at night with any one I love, Or watch honey bees busy around the hive of a summer forenoon... Or the wonderfulness of the sundown, Or of stars shining so quiet and bright, Or the exquisite delicate thin curve of the new moon in spring... What stranger miracles are there?”

Source : Walt Whitman, “Miracles”
“Where there is calumny, there is Satan himself.”
“And by letting go of trying to control the uncontrollable...you ironically increase...the probability of getting what you want.”
“Voices surround us, always telling us to move faster. It may be our boss, our pastor, our parents, our wives, our husbands, our politicians, or, sadly, even ourselves. So we comply. We increase the speed. We live life in the fast lane because we have no slow lanes anymore. Every lane is fast, and the only comfort our culture can offer is more lanes and increased speed limits. The result? Too many of us are running as fast as we can, and an alarming number of us are running much faster than we can sustain.”
“Always remember that striving and struggle precede success even in the dictionary.”

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