Ablative Quotes

#1. The suspect had experienced a ballistic interlude earlier in the evening," Miss Pao said, "regrettably not filmed, and relieved himself of excess velocity by means of an ablative technique." (describing a young man who flew off a bicycle at high speed)

Neal Stephenson

#2. But the same in the plural in ia must be. E, or i, are the ablative's ends, - mark my song, While or to the nominative case doth belong; For the neuter aforesaid we settle it thus: The plural is ora; the singular us.

Percival Leigh

#3. Beauty is a riddle

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#4. Drama demands the reversal of expectation, but in such a way that the first surprise is followed by an immediate recognition of inevitability.

Wallace Stegner

#5. Never be ashamed of asking for tap water in restaurants. It is only embarrassing and a sign of poorness in Europe. (According to The English, England is not part of Europe. Never has been, never will be. England is England, not part of anything.)

Angela Kiss

#6. There's no sin but stupidity.

Oscar Wilde

#7. You are so brave & quiet i forget you are suffering.

Ernest Hemingway,

#8. Sarah Palin has been tagged and released back into the wild.

Jon Stewart

#9. And since there are three scales of intelligence, one which understands by itself, a second which understands what is shown it by others, and a third which understands neither by itself nor on the showing of others, the first of which is most excellent, the second good, but the third worthless,

Niccolo Machiavelli

#10. Indifference must be a crime in us, to be ranked but one degree below treachery; for deserting the commonwealth is next to betraying it.

Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

#11. She limped, unaided around the house, like a bird with its wing broken. Tame, because it couldn't fly away. All her time was taken up with managing herself, working out new ways to do things. Being a different person in the world.

Joan London

#12. To call a man an animal is to flatter him; he's a machine, a walking dildo. It's often said that men use women. Use them for what ?Surely not pleasure.

Valerie Solanas

#13. So it is that some things are increased by being diminished, and others are diminished by being increased.

Lao-Tzu

#14. In the sixties, dear Bill, we did not say 'top' and 'bottom' - we said 'pitcher' and 'catcher' ...

John Irving

#15. Taylor Swift is singing "Mine" and I want Ben to be mine. Only mine. Forever.

Anna Bloom