Ballooning Degeneration Quotes

#1. A girl who is really pretty - whether she wraps herself in an abayah, a nun's habit, or the front hall rug - never wraps herself so that the world can't tell.

P. J. O'Rourke

#2. A cup of coffee, a cigarette, the penetrating aroma of its smoke, myself sitting in a shadowy room with eyes half-closed...I want no more from life than my dreams and this...It doesn't seem much? I don't know. What do I know about what is little and what is a lot?

Pessoa, Fernando

#3. I don't blame Germans," Emil said. "I don't even blame Nazis. I blame people who want to live at the expense of others.

Steve Anderson

#4. I played with fire, did counsel spurn, Made life my common stake; But never thought that fire would burn, O that a soul could ache.

Henry Vaughan

#5. I didn't think you'd allow me to attend. (Emily)
I'm a beast, Emily, not a bastard. (Draven)

Kinley MacGregor

#6. The prohibition of L'shon Hara is the Jewish equivalent of the Buddhist practice of Right Speech.

Sylvia Boorstein

#7. The proper ending for any story about people it seems to me, since life is now a polymer in which the Earth is wrapped so tightly, should be the same abbreviation, which I now write large because I feel like it, which is this one:
ETC.

Kurt Vonnegut

#8. There is no news industry.

Clay Shirky

#9. The advertising world had space men in it before spacemen existed.

Fred Allen

#10. That was one of the most rewarding things about spending nights in the open. Birds were bound to wake you up, and whether they carried good or bad luck, at least they woke you up with music.

Ngugi Wa Thiong'o

#11. No matter how much he loved her ... his need to fulfill his promise to Nathaniel would always prevail.

Aleatha Romig

#12. Terry Kitchen asked me one time why, since I had so few gifts as a husband and father, I had gotten married. And I heard myself say: That's the way the post-war movie goes.

Kurt Vonnegut

#13. When the world asks if there is any hope, we can say absolutely! No one is exempt from tragedy or disappointment- God himself was not exempt. Jesus offered no immunity, no way out of the unfairness, but rather a way through it to the other side.

Philip Yancey

#14. Love can't always do work. Sometimes it just has to look into the darkness.

Iris Murdoch

#15. Women. You tell me they're not all witches, and I'll tell you you haven't been paying attention.

Charlie Huston