Big Red Son Quotes

#1. There is something deeply surreal about standing behind a female performer in hotpink peau de soie, a woman whose clitoris and perineum you have priorly seen, and watching her try to get a microwaved egg roll onto her plate with a cocktail fork.
- David Foster Wallace, "Big Red Son" (1998)

David Foster Wallace

#2. My hair grows and grows; you cannot stop it - that fellow grows, it grows wild.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#3. A poor soul burdened with a corpse,' Epictetus calls you.

Marcus Aurelius

#4. Every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning, every poem an epitaph.

T. S. Eliot

#5. I was pursuing the inner path at the expense of the rest of my being and the rest of the world.

Satish Kumar

#6. 'What i you're the Big Bad Wolf?' he managed to quip.

Neal's eyes widened. 'Then you'd better be Little Red Riding Hood, son.'

Rachel Wilder

#7. The ascension of Jesus was the supreme political event of world history. He ascended not so much

R.C. Sproul

#8. Have you never seen a movie? Read a comic book? That's always how it starts - just a little temptation, just a little taste of evil, and then BAM, your light saber turns red and you're breathing through a big black mask and slicing off your son's hand just to be mean.
They looked at him blankly.

Cassandra Clare

#9. Fans love McGwire for his powerful physique, for his on-field hugs of his son, the part-time bat boy. He is Big Mac, or Paul Bunyan in Cardinals red with a white-ash bat instead of an ax.

Bill Dedman

#10. But mothers lie. It's in the job description.

John Green

#11. Don't get too close, mis amigos. Two reasons: I haven't completely broken 'em in yet. And they smell worse than camel butt.

Mark Frost

#12. That's the ultimate gratification in any business situation - do customers buy the product? And do they use it and do they come back and buy more of it?

Jim Barksdale

#13. I went through a wood-chopping phase when I was nine or 10.

Jennifer Lawrence

#14. I'm convinced that our duty to provide advice and consent for justices of the Supreme Court is our most important constitutional responsibility.

Frank Lautenberg

#15. I go to a lot of rap shows and sometimes take what they do from a performer's aspect, how they interact with the crowd. I always have a DJ with me on the road, as well as some dancers.

Hannibal Buress

#16. How come "fat chance" and "slim chance" mean the same thing?

Ziggy Marley

#17. In singing and dancing is the voice of the Law.

Hakuin Ekaku