"The bosom-weight, your stubborn gift, That no philosophy can lift."

-- William Wordsworth

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“You know, for a long time being a heavily tattooed woman was viewed as something gross, or you're either a criminal or a drug addict. It feels good to be a good representation of the art form versus being the token tattoo girl. I'm just glad that people even consider it to be sexy, because I think I'm just a big nerd so it works out.”

Source : Interview with Shawn Loeffler, www.askmen.com.
“Wherefore, by the authority of Apostolic power, We declare inventors of novel notions, which as the Apostle Paul has said are of no edification, but rather are practiced to beget most foolish questions, are to be deprived of the communion of the Church.”
“I've had some tremendous adventures, good and bad. It's part of the novel, and a novel isn't interesting if it doesn't have some good and bad. And you don't know what good is if bad hasn't been a part of your life”

Source : Hogan’s Alley interview with Tom Heintjes, cartoonician.com. 1994.
“The past is a trail you leave behind, much like the wake of a speedboat.Â That is, it's a vanishing trail temporarily showing you where you were.Â The wake of a boat doesn't affect it's course-obviously it can't since it appears behind the boat.Â So consider this image when you exclaim that your past is the reason you aren't moving forward.”
“If we pulled out of Iraq tomorrow, Islamic jihadism is on the rise. And they continue, as we see in Lebanon, to seek to destroy the State of Israel and seek to drive America back and bring us to our knees. We must stand tall and straight.”
“When you write a novel, there's a level at which you are much more revealing about who you are because you're less self-conscious about how you're presenting yourself. You are accidentally leaving your DNA all over everything in a novel because it's all coming from you.”
“Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.”
“Timing: The alpha and omega of aerialists, jugglers, actors, diplomats, publicists, generals, prizefighters, revolutionists, financiers, dictators, lovers.”

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