The moment you realize you are not present, you are present. - Eckhart Tolle
Let's just be friends and make no special effort to ever see each other again.
The bone-chilling scream split the warm summer night in two, the first half being before the scream when it was fairly balmy and calm and pleasant, the second half still balmy and quite pleasant for those who hadn't heard the scream at all, but not calm or balmy or even very nice for those who did hear the scream, discounting the little period of time during the actual scream itself when your ears might have been hearing it but your brain wasn't reacting yet to let you know. -- Winning sentence, 1986 Bulwer-Lytton bad fiction contest.
hypotyposis vivid description of a scene
If you rearrange the letters in "Chuck Norris", they also spell "Crush Rock In". The words "with his fists" are understood.
Centre Piece Imagine a life. Live it. 2003 Torna Haellestad, Sweden ~ Ken Friedman
[ossum Lodge Word Game: vacuum cleaner] Red Green: Okay, Doug: This is what you use when you clean the house. Dougie Franklin: [Blank look] Red Green: This is what your MOM uses when SHE cleans the house. Dougie Franklin: Air freshener? Red Green: No, this picks up little bits of food and stuff off the floor. Dougie Franklin: Oh, a dog! Red Green: No, no, this picks up bits of dirt and fluff and lint and stuff. Dougie Franklin: A baby?
A countryman which came through to Paris upon the bridge to the change, not had perceived merchandises in several shops. The curiosity take him, he come near of a exchange desk:—"Sir, had he beg from a look simple, tell me what you sell." The loader though that he may to divert of the personage:—"I sell, was answered him asse's heads."—"Indeed, reply to him the countryman, you make of it a great sale, because it not remains more but one in your shop."
Lies! All lies! You're all lying against my boys! -- Ma Barker
I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, Were it not for making a living, which is rather a nouciance. -- Ogden Nash
Reporters like Bill Greider from the Washington Post and Him Naughton of the New York Times, for instance, had to file long, detailed, and relatively complex stories every day -- while my own deadline fell every two weeks -- but neither of them ever seemed in a hurry about getting their work done, and from time to time they would try to console me about the terrible pressure I always seemed to be laboring under. Any $100-an-hour psychiatrist could probably explain this problem to me, in thirteen or fourteen sessions, but I don't have time for that. No doubt it has something to do with a deep-seated personality defect, or maybe a kink in whatever blood vessel leads into the pineal gland... On the other hand, it might be something as simple & basically perverse as whatever instinct it is that causes a jackrabbit to wait until the last possible second to dart across the road in front of a speeding car. -- Hunter S. Thompson, "Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail"
Dr. Korby: Can you understand what I’m offering mankind? Kirk: Programming. Different word, but the same old promises made by Genghis Khan, Julius Caesar, Hitler, Ferris, Maltuvis. "Star Trek: The Original Series: What Are Little Girls Made Of?, Season 1"
If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not obey it yet he shall not be dismissed. -- Francis of Assisi
if ( X ) { print "It's works"; } else if ( !X ) { print "It's broken"; } else { print "Why does this keep happening!?"; }
* Mercury calmly removes XT-Ream's arm.. * Mercury then proceeds to beat XT-Ream with XT-Ream's arm.
El hombre, en tanto que individuo animal, como los animales de todas las otras especies, desde el principio y desde que comienza a respirar, tiene el sentimiento inmediato de su existencia individual; pero no adquiere la conciencia reflexiva de si, conciencia que constituye propiamente su personalidad, ms que por medio de la inteligencia, y por consiguiente slo en la sociedad. Vuestra personalidad ms ntima, la conciencia que tenis de vosotros mismos en vuestro fuero interno, no es en cierto modo ms que el reflejo de vuestra propia imagen, repercutida y enviada de nuevo como por otros tantos espejos por la conciencia tanto colectiva como individual de todos los seres humanos que componen vuestro mundo social. Cada hombre que conocis y con el cual os hallis en relaciones, sean directas sean indirectas, determina ms o menos vuestro ser ms ntimo, contribuye a haceros lo que sois, a constituir vuestra personalidad. Por consiguiente, si estis rodeados de esclavos, aunque seis su amo, no dejis de ser un esclavo, pues la conciencia de los esclavos no puede enviaros sino vuestra imagen envilecida. La imbecilidad de todos os imbeciliza, mientras que la inteligencia de todos os ilumina, os eleva; los vicios de vuestro medio social son vuestros vicios y no podrais ser hombres realmente libres sin estar rodeados de hombres igualmente libres, pues la existencia de un solo esclavo basta para aminorar vuestra libertad. En la inmortal declaracin de los derechos del hombre, hecha por la Convencin nacional, encontramos expresada claramente esa verdad sublime, que la esclavitud de un solo ser humano es la esclavitud de todos. Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin, God and the State
Oh, well, I guess this is just going to be one of those lifetimes.
Spreadsheet: Sophisticated software that can be used as a database, rudimentary word processor, graphing program, and, in a pinch, a ledger.
Saddam Hussein was not found hiding in a "hole." Saddam was roundhouse-kicked in the head by Chuck Norris in Kansas, which sent him through the earth, stopping just short of the surface of Iraq.
You will reach the highest possible point in your business or profession.