Biberstein Social Action Quotes

#1. The pains and pleasures of the body, howsoever important to ourselves, are an indelicate subject of conversation

Edward Gibbon

#2. Methylprednisolone?

Susan Wiggs

#3. My mother said it was like a cassette tape you could never rewind. But it was hard to remember you couldn't rewind it while you were listening to it. And so you'd forget and fall into the music and listen and then, without you even knowing it, the tape would suddenly end.

Carol Rifka Brunt

#4. Type is saying things to us all the time. Typefaces express a mood, an atmosphere. They give words a certain coloring.

Rick Poynor

#5. In that undifferentiated reality of the Self there is eternal bliss. All the phantoms of existence fade away.

Frederick Lenz

#6. In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea.

Richard Bach

#7. I have heard some stuff that might be influenced by my records, but it's usually pretty wacky and off-the-wall, which is kind of annoying, to be frank.

Beck

#8. So on one hand, honey is an amazingly sophisticated and efficient food source. On the other hand, it's bee backwash.

Alton Brown

#9. How can I love you and not be afraid? You're my life, Eve, my heart. You're asking, you're wondering if I ever worry, if I ever fear, that one day Peabody or Feeney, your commander - a cop who's become a friend - will knock on my door? Of course I do.

J.D. Robb

#10. Folk music is a bunch of fat people.

Bob Dylan

#11. So Lightning says to Mud,
"What would happen if I struck your blood?"
And Mud says, "Brother,
It would hurt,
And make me the mother
Of every living thing.
But, Fire Boy, you ain't lifting my grass skirt
Until you burn me a ring.

Sherman Alexie

#12. All this argument is the temperature going up or not, it's absurd ... Of course it's going up. It has gone up since the early 1800s, before the Industrial Revolution, because we're coming out of the Little Ice Age, not because we're putting more carbon dioxide into the air.

Reid Bryson

#13. When you are instructed by affliction, you can become a comforter to the afflicted.

Charles Spurgeon

#14. When I was supposed to be awake, I was asleep. When I was supposed to sleep, I was silent. When a pleasure offered itself to me, I avoided it.

Susanna Kaysen

#15. A mind is a wonderful thing to change.

Andrew Sullivan