Spicknall Murder Quotes

#1. One tragic example of this orientation is the rampant prescription of painkillers, which now kill more people each year in the United States than guns or car accidents.

Bessel A. Van Der Kolk

#2. You can't call a ninja lord dweeb.

Rick Riordan

#3. I burned liked oil, you grew like a flower, rising toward your magical hour. I was not yours and you were not mine, our true love finds us when it is time

Mark Kozelek

#4. Because I have a dog, it's easier to work at home: I sit in a horrible weird 'Mastermind'-style chair and bask in my own mediocrity. Being single, I've no family life to distract me at the end of the day. Apart from taking the dog for a walk, I have no other responsibilities.

Miranda Hart

#5. Music is the shorthand of emotion. Emotions, which let themselves be described in words with such difficulty, are directly conveyed to man in music, and in that is its power and significance.

Leo Tolstoy

#6. It's a fault line where the flotsam and energy that washes up from the Pacific collides with all of urban America crashing in from the other direction.

Antoine Predock

#7. Each possession I own is but a stone around my neck.

Albert Einstein

#8. Prudence in action avails more than wisdom in conception.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#9. Sometimes I feel as if we are all trapped in a movie. We know our lines, where to walk, how to act, only there is no camera. Yet, we can't break out of the movie. And it's a bad one.

Charles Bukowski

#10. 'Ashes of Time' was my third film, and as a young director at that point, it's not very often that you have the chance to make a big martial arts film, so of course I jumped at this opportunity.

Wong Kar-Wai

#11. It is ... idle to pretend, as many do, that there is no contradiction between religion and science. Science contradicts religion as surely as Judaism contradicts Islam-they are absolutely and irresolvably conflicting views. Unless, that is, science is obliged to change its fundamental nature.

Bryan Appleyard

#12. I think I throw the ball as hard as anyone. The ball just doesn't get there as fast.

Eddie Bane

#13. The universe had no choice but to create intelligent life so that there would be someone else that could simply laugh at how unbelievably, ridiculously and senselessly huge the universe is and how utterly insignificant the rest of us are.

Ian Strang

#14. Then his heart and imagination were more in the ascendency. Now he had begun to admire the intellectual qualities of that literature more, and its imaginative less; for he had begun to think truth attainable through the forces of the brain, sole and supreme.

George MacDonald

#15. Poetry, at all times, exercises two distinct functions: it may reveal, it may unveil to every eye, the ideal aspects of common thingsor it may actually add to the number of motives poetic and uncommon in themselves, by the imaginative creation of things that are ideal from their very birth.

Walter Pater