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Critical lice are like body lice, which desert corpses to seek the living.


Theophile Gautier

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BIBLE A beard signifies lice, not brains.
PROVERB He has too many lice to feel an itch
CHINESE PROVERBS I've seen more intelligence in the crotch lice of harem whores.
CHRISTOPHER MOORE Head lice have their own animal-rights group, or may as well. The National Pediculosis Association d...
P. J. O'ROURKE Lice don't seem so small when they get in your hair.
MARTY RUBIN This year we've given out $4,000 worth of shampoo for head lice.
DALE HOFFA Well, well, it's enough to make the lice drop dead from my head! Condescend to enter the house.
HALLDóR LAXNESS Some people had lice in their hair and she had to put a towel over them.
BILL HILL He spake, and there came divers sorts of flies, and lice in all their coasts.
BIBLE According to a Public Policy Polling survey, most Americans find lice and colonoscopies more appeali...
RON FOURNIER Medical researchers don't know much about head lice because they don't much care. The reason...
P. J. O'ROURKE L'avenir, il y faut travailler comme les tisseurs de haute lice travaillent à leurs tapisseries, sa...
HENRIK IBSEN Americans have a lower opinion of Congress than they do of the NFL replacement refs, head lice, traf...
JUAN WILLIAMS A modern man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The ...
ELIAS CANETTI A "modern" man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. Th...
ELIAS CANETTI The natives are superficially agreeable, but they go in for cannibalism, headhunting, infanticide, i...
MARGARET MEAD Humans, left to own misguided devices, scratches the Divine in the self as one would the lice, but r...
FAKEER ISHAVARDAS A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it ...
ELIAS CANETTI I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of...
LOUIS ARAGON We already know lice is part of Interior Alaska now, but can it be managed? That's the question. I t...
CRAIG GARDNER To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind.
THEOPHILE GAUTIER Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes!
THEOPHILE GAUTIER To love is to admire with the heart; to admire is to love with the mind
THEOPHILE GAUTIER It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not...
THEOPHILE GAUTIER What I write is not for little girls.
THEOPHILE GAUTIER Books follow morals, and not morals books.
THEOPHILE GAUTIER Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
THEOPHILE GAUTIER Any man who does not have his inner world to translate is not an artist.
THEOPHILE GAUTIER I was born to travel and write verse.
THEOPHILE GAUTIER I am a man for whom the outside world exists.
THEOPHILE GAUTIER You do not become a critic until it has been completely established to your own satisfaction that yo...
THEOPHILE GAUTIER Sooner barbarity than boredom.
THEOPHILE GAUTIER The word poet literally means maker: anything which is not well made doesn't exist.
THEOPHILE GAUTIER A cat will be your friend, but never your slave.
THEOPHILE GAUTIER Yes, the work comes out more beautiful from a material that resists the process, verse, marble, onyx...
THEOPHILE GAUTIER I am one of those for whom superfluity is a necessity.
THEOPHILE GAUTIER The cat is a dilettante in fur.
THEOPHILE GAUTIER If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend but never your slave.
THEOPHILE GAUTIER Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of executi...
THEOPHILE GAUTIER Eyes so transparent that through them the soul is seen.
THEOPHILE GAUTIER Down comes rain drop, bubble follows; On the house-top one by one Flock the synagogue of swall...
THEOPHILE GAUTIER High art alone is eternal and the bust outlives the city. [Fr., L'Art supreme Seule a l'eterni...
THEOPHILE GAUTIER Eyes so transparent that through them the soul is seen
THEOPHILE GAUTIER It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal...one that does not ...
THEOPHILE GAUTIER Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign
THEOPHILE GAUTIER Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.
THEOPHILE GAUTIER It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does no...
THEOPHILE GAUTIER If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend but never your slave.
THEOPHILE GAUTIER I sleep in peace, even if only in the company of lice, behind bars. The same could not be said of my...
ESKINDER NEGA I used to always be putting my hat on children being photographed and then getting home and discover...
TOM BAKER I remember sleeping in places that were infested with rats and waking up with one trundling over my ...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH Already, he was dreaming of a refined solitude, a comfortable desert, a motionless ark in which to s...
JORIS-KARL HUYSMANS Indeed, to spur your Baal to action, I will taunt and challenge you ... to create as much as a singl...
MARTIN LUTHER I choose not to make a graveyard of my body for the rotting corpses of dead animals.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW We did everything from getting the county nurse to visit the home to providing shampoos. School work...
FRED NIX If you're drawing humans, it can be detrimental to be too naturalistic, which is like animating ...
HENRY SELICK Passover is my idea of a perfect holiday. Dear God, when you're handing out plagues of darkness,...
P. J. O'ROURKE The best that can be said about Victorian hospitals is that they were a slight improvement over thei...
LINDSEY FITZHARRIS How are we to live with the desert, in the desert, within the desert?
MAGNUS LARSSON Are you busy proving your worth or living it? A critical distinction
RENAE A. SAUTER The circumstances in which Mexico is living have changed. I see an electorate that is much more crit...
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CORMAC MCCARTHY which are critical to ensuring strong support in Congress.
ROB PORTMAN Safe storage and child access prevention laws are critical steps as we seek to reduce the occurrence...
CARL LEVIN Contrary to what you may assume, I am not a pessimist but an indifferentist- that is, I don't make t...
H.P. LOVECRAFT A light has dawned for me: I need companions, living ones, not dead companions and corpses which I c...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Life can only be understood looking backward. It must be lived forward.
ERIC ROTH I have risen to a body not yet born, existing like a light around a body through which the body move...
ROBERT BLY All of us are a culmination of vital parts of our parents and their pasts. A vital part of the circu...
SHERRILYN KENYON Grim sighed heavily. "I swear I'm getting a migraine."
"My mom suffers from those a lot, too."<...
SHERRILYN KENYON Baby, I ain't trash. Trash is something you throw away. My people keep me.
SHERRILYN KENYON Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Creativity is not just thinking outside the box but living outside it.
VICTOR SHAMAS And one battle looks much like another when you survey the corpses after.
WILLIAM NAPIER Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung.
HERACLITUS Corpses sour you. They are bad for objectivity.
BERTOLT BRECHT When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults.
BRIAN W. ALDISS Some people are always critical of vague statements. I tend rather to be critical of precise stateme...
RAYMOND SMULLYAN Some people are always critical of vague statements. I tend rather to be critical of precise statem...
RAYMOND SMULLYAN Some people are always critical of vague statements. I tend rather to be critical of precise stateme...
RAYMOND SMULLYAN Sometimes we seek that which we are not yet ready to find.
LIBBA BRAY A generation of the unteachable is hanging upon us like a necklace of corpses.
GEORGE ORWELL Dreams in life are like mirages in the desert where you can never reach.
KAZI SHAMS Recognize the cunning man not by the corpses he pays homage to but by the living writers he conspire...
EDWARD DAHLBERG - Mrzim sve što je odricanje!
- Ni ja, Ivane, ne pristajem da se odričem. Ja hoću ceo, sav, ...
DOBRICA ĆOSIć She was restless. She drove a little too fast, swam a little too far offshore. She hitchhiked. She s...
ELIZABETH WINDER In the areas which have been disturbed people are living cordially with the Security Forces. In area...
YOWERI MUSEVENI My given name was Zahra, which is the 'flower of the desert.' I don't look anything like...
IMAN The progress of science is strewn, like an ancient desert trail, with the bleached skeleton of disca...
ARTHUR KOESTLER We are that which activates the body.
PEACE PILGRIM We are that which activates the body.
PILGRIMS I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracte...
OG MANDINO Now is everything
Now is the essence
Now is the focus
Focus on the now
For that ...
KAREN HACKEL Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.
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JULIE ANN DAWSON Calm down. I’m a demon, Nick. Hematite doesn’t like my genetics. It doesn’t mean anything othe...
SHERRILYN KENYON We came in spastic, like tameless horses. We left in plastic as numbered corpses.
BILLY JOEL Collective states are constitutionally incapable of reliably producing anything but corpses.
L. NEIL SMITH Fuel your life with passion.
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