Placidveneer Quotes

#1. Perception has always interested me. The idea thatbehind every face, there are a thousand faces. Beneath the placidveneer of middle America, there lies terror.

Bryan Singer

#2. hours about wayward sons and

Tony Black

#3. Most of the time, life is all "What's next?" "Who's next?" "Where the HELL am I going, please?" But on anniversaries, you take the time to stop and look back and it's like watching a play of your past dance across your memory. At

Holly Bourne

#4. We write poems / as leaves give oxygen - / so we can breathe.

Erica Jong

#5. the Lord Ratnasambhava keeps all his treasure inside mongooses. When the god needs his gems and jewels, he squeezes one mongoose and makes it vomit them up!

Jane Wilson-Howarth

#6. I had done battle with a great fear and the victory was mine.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

#7. Iron which is brought near a spiral of copper wire, traversed by an electrical current, becomes magnetic, and then attracts other pieces of iron, or a suitably placed steel magnet.

Hermann Von Helmholtz

#8. Probably my favorite artists to listen to James Taylor, Stevie Wonder - I haven't gone back in a really long time and really listened to them - my first guitar influences. It's been awhile since I revisited that.

Jonny Lang

#9. In essence, Zizek's procedure here is no different in principle from that of Husserl, who wrote and rewrote voluminous drafts and was continually "introducing" the project of transcendental phenomenology. The one thing that has changed is that Zizek is publishing his drafts as he goes.

Adam Kotsko

#10. We turned at a dozen paces, for love is a duel, and looked at each other for the last time.

Jack Kerouac

#11. You've followed Malexia for years. You have done terrible things. So, if as you say, you have a will of your own, did you do those things because you were ordered, or did you do them of your own free will?

T.T. Escurel

#12. Some theories are good for nothing except to be argued about.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#13. There is a convergence of crises that makes it challenging to keep the world's attention.

Samantha Power

#14. X-rays ... I am afraid of them. I stopped experimenting with them two years ago, when I came near to losing my eyesight and Dally, my assistant practically lost the use of both of his arms.

Thomas A. Edison

#15. Suddenly you've worked yourself up to the top of the pecking order and you say to yourself, okay, this is going to be fun.

Michael Douglas