Disconcerting Signals Quotes

#1. Death is for other people.

Agatha Christie

#2. The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation.

Jean De La Bruyere

#3. Unless and until Barack Obama addresses the full depth of Americans' anger with his full arsenal of policy smarts and political gifts, his presidency and, worse, our economy will be paralyzed.

Frank Rich

#4. the presence of buildings around a park is important in design. They enclose it. They make a definite shape out of the space, so that it appears as an important event in the city scene, a positive feature, rather than a no-account leftover.

Jane Jacobs

#5. Be clear, be brief, be human.

Ernest Gowers

#6. I know and know of more than a few MTF's (male-to-female trannies) who've developed strange cancers. Myself, I've got a nice little case of Chronic Lymphocitic Leukemia (CLL).

Kate Bornstein

#7. Physicians think they do a lot for a patient when they give his disease a name.

Immanuel Kant

#8. He was tired of shouldering the weight of other people's bad decisions along with his own.

Michael Chabon

#9. I love the interplay between words and pictures. I love the fact that in comics, your pictures are acting like words, presenting themselves to be read.

Gene Luen Yang

#10. My whole life I've played music for my own personal enjoyment and the idea of it becoming a machine or a business is just horrible.

Robert Smith

#11. We've gotten into this situation where integrity is really lacking and that's why I'm glad I'm not coaching. You see we've got a coach at Kentucky who put two schools on probation and he's still coaching. I really don't understand that.

Bobby Knight

#12. If loyalty was toilet paper ... we'd be hard-pressed to wipe our asses, old buddy.

Stephen King

#13. Who doubts that? How many very bad things are there that we do! But if we were to attempt to reform all our bad ways at once, we should never do any good thing. I am not strong enough to put the world straight, and I doubt if you are." Such

Anthony Trollope

#14. The result [Republicans winning the Senate] would be devastating for reproductive choice, the environment, civil liberties, Social Security and health care, as well as corporate accountability.

Barbra Streisand

#15. I was a virgin before you. You woke a sleeping demon, Regan. I tried to sate it myself, but failed. Now you're going to deal with the consequences.

Larissa Ione