There was a silly damn bird called a phoenix back before Christ, every few hundred years he built a pyre and burnt himself up. He must have been the first cousin to Man. But every time he burnt himself up he sprang out of the ashes, he got himself born all over again. And it looks like we're doing the same thing, over and over, but we're got on damn thing the phoenix never had. We know the damn silly thing we just did. We know all the damn silly things we've done for a thousand years and as long as we know that and always have it around where we can see it, someday we'll stop making the goddamn funeral pyres and jumping in the middle of them. We pick up a few more people that remember every generation.
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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have. CRAIG GROESCHEL He took off his diaper himself and we told him to put it in the trash. And he did, he picked it up a... JEFF LARSON If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y... GARY F EVANS... Obviously, the drills are going to be a little rusty. But the thing he has done is been an athlete f... JONATHAN HAYES Crowley had always known that he would be around when the world ended, because he was immortal and w... TERRY PRATCHETT He got himself in a predicament where he felt threatened and went on the offensive, but he paid the ... TERRY FRANCONA He is fine. As far as we could tell, he fainted and he hadn't eaten all day and he got a little emot... TOM COFFEY It'll never be the same as it is here. We'd been playing shows all over and it's been building up re... ALEX TURNER • “As soon as I'd walked out of my normal working life and into the apartment we now shared, I w... MEREDITH WILD As soon as I'd walked out of my normal working life and into the apartment we now shared, I went to ... MEREDITH WILD It has been like that since the first day I got here. As soon as I got here he showed me around camp... AUNDRAE ALLISON It is not true that is one damn thing after another - it's one damn thing over and over again. EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th... GARY F EVANS... I thought of it more with Jason in mind (than other starters), but I talked to all of them and they ... BOB APODACA It might seem a psychotic, insane thing, quitting a job after I'd built a great career over eigh... JAMEELA JAMIL If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack. 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FRANK TAYLOR Whenever he felt like giving up, plopping himself down, and dying (which was, like, every ten minute... RICK RIORDAN A friend of mine, that I had known for some time, came up one day with an old guitar. I don't know w... CHARLIE DANIELS Very few people run around and get amnesia and have comas and come out of them and do all the silly ... ERIKA SLEZAK If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is: infinite. For ... WILLIAM BLAKE We were sitting there on the couch together, and he pushed himself up to go but then fell back down ... JOHN GREEN I just felt a thump from the rear of my car. Ryan was up over me. He was upside down and there was a... ALEX BARRON He's an emotional guy. But I don't think he understood why this was happening. He was a little throw... BART SCHOUTEN we sat there smoking cigarettes at 5 in the morning. CHARLES BUKOWSKI It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over. EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY I know late in the game, one of the assistants said Matt Simmons must have had 15 rebounds. Every ti... JEFF LANGREHR Gary Neville has been the best right-back in the Premier League for the last eight years or so and h... LUKE YOUNG Sure you are," Jack replied. He sashayed up next to me, and yes, it was a sashay, he was far too dam... CANDICE GILMER … Science is constantly proved all the time. You see, if we take something like any fiction, any h... RICKY GERVAIS It's hard to think he is still only 21 years old. You've got to be impressed with him on the field a... BRIAN SCHNEIDER He was real consistent down the stretch last year, and he's carried it over to this year. He was fig... BLAISE ILSLEY He fought it, and he damn near beat it! We J.K. ROWLING All of us had to go by that rule, damn it. If he did [bet on baseball], then fess up and come clean ... DAVE BRISTOL When we drove up to the cemetery that night, it was just like he had been killed all over again. CRYSTAL MERILLAT Buck influenced a lot of people, from The Beatles to me. Buck and I were in a lot of battles over th... MERLE HAGGARD He has been a friend of The Bridge for a long time and he has helped us with projects before many ye... AMY ERNEST [He said he wants to] cringe ... when they're not doing a damn thing, and everybody's buying into it... GRAY DAVIS The problem with aging is not that it's one damn thing after another—it's every damn thing, all at... JOHN SCALZI Shall I tell you the difference between our Holy Father and ourselves? We see things from a single v... FREDERICK ROLFE It's like when my doctor told me the story of these two brothers whose dad was a bad alcoholic. One ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Don't, but if at all, then, lie to the whole damn world - never to your own damn, silly stupid self. FAKEER ISHAVARDAS People mess up all the time. Michael Vick, he made some mistakes. He surrounded himself around the w... 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ALFRED ADLER There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as ... ALFRED ADLER The machine demanded access codes. As he entered the first, a faint whispering sound startled him, c... CHRISTINA ENGELA He does it over and over again. As long as we have a minute left in the game, he and the boys just f... ADAM VINATIERI We understand the decision he had to make. He and I are great friends, and we've been playing for a ... ALEX ROUCH It was bad. We flew commercial flights, and we'd fly the day of the game to play doubleheaders. Befo... ENOS CABELL He had built his own future brick by brick around himself but there were no doors or windows, at lea... DAN CHAON Life is not one thing after another. It's the same damn thing over and over! SOURCE UNKNOWN The sovereign God wants to be loved for Himself and honored for Himself, but that is only part of wh... A. W. TOZER He's a slow starter and it's been that way most of the season -- he gets better as the match goes on... STEVE ECKERT It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over. EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY He just messed up, but I don't take it out on him over and over. It happened, but it hurt me how he ... GRADY LOVE We don't know how the fire started. He (Hinton) said that he left the hotel and went to KFC to get s... GERRY MCGHEE [But while his true home looks likely to be the subject of debate for many years to come, what is kn... LOUISE YEOMAN As you know, all the rumors were that he was on his way. We had not officially heard that. But we go... A.J. SMITH I see it on his face. I hear it when he talks. We look out at the world and we see the same thing: N... MARSHA NORMAN Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most times he will pick himself up and carry on. WINSTON CHURCHILL
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See Istanbu... RAY BRADBURY Do you know that books smell like nutmeg or some spice from a foreign land? I loved to smell them wh... RAY BRADBURY You'll be found, your nickels, dimes and Indian-heads fused by electroplating. Abe Lincolns melted i... RAY BRADBURY There's no use going to school unless your final destination is the library. RAY BRADBURY You must write every single day of your life... You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like... RAY BRADBURY Stuff your eyes with wonder, he said, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's... RAY BRADBURY You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers alwa... RAY BRADBURY Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge. RAY BRADBURY Orwell was dealing with communism and his disillusionment with communism in Russia and what he saw t... RAY BRADBURY Sunsets are loved because they vanish. Flowers are loved because they go. The ... RAY BRADBURY Why love the woman who is your wife? Her nose breathes in the air of a world that I know; therefore ... RAY BRADBURY Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything. RAY BRADBURY Sunsets we always liked because they only happen once and go away." "But, Lena, that's sad." RAY BRADBURY No matter how hard you try to be what you once were, you can only be what you are here and now. RAY BRADBURY I often wonder if God recognizes His own son the way we've dressed him up, or is it dressed him down... RAY BRADBURY The things that you do should be things that you love, and things that you love should be things tha... RAY BRADBURY I am madness maddened when it comes to books, writers, and the great granary silos where their wits ... RAY BRADBURY When I was a boy in the midwest I used to go out and look at the stars at night and wonder about the... RAY BRADBURY Le cose che voi cercate, Montag, sono su questa terra, ma il solo modo per cui l’uomo medio potrà... RAY BRADBURY Melt all the guns, I thought, break the knives, burn the guillotines-and the malicious will still wr... RAY BRADBURY Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind ... RAY BRADBURY First you jump off the cliff and build your wings on the way down. RAY BRADBURY I have two rules in life - to hell with it, whatever it is, and get your work done. RAY BRADBURY Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The word is ... RAY BRADBURY Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. ... RAY BRADBURY A good night sleep, or a ten minute bawl, or a pint of chocolate ice cream, or all three together, i... RAY BRADBURY And when he died, I suddenly realized I wasn’t crying for him at all, but for the things he did. I... RAY BRADBURY I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don't hav... RAY BRADBURY If you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool that God ever turned ... RAY BRADBURY One day many years ago a man walked along and stood in the sound of the ocean on a cold sunless shor... RAY BRADBURY Millions of students now, in all the schools of America, are reading science fiction and especially,... RAY BRADBURY We've gotta become the Martians. I'm a Martian - I tell you to become Martians. And we'v... RAY BRADBURY I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off. RAY BRADBURY That's the wonderful thing about man; he never gets so discouraged or disgusted that he gives up doi... RAY BRADBURY The home environment can undo a lot you try to do at school. RAY BRADBURY There were only the great diamonds and sapphires and emerald mists and velvet inks of space, with Go... RAY BRADBURY Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born tha... RAY BRADBURY Find out what your hero or heroine wants, and when he or she wakes up in the morning, just follow hi... RAY BRADBURY The average TV commercial of sixty seconds has one hundred and twenty half-second clips in it, or on... RAY BRADBURY If we listened to our intellect we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd ne... RAY BRADBURY Find out what your hero or heroine wants, and when he or she wakes up in the morning, just follow hi... RAY BRADBURY Impossible; for how many people did you know who refracted your own light to you? RAY BRADBURY Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future. RAY BRADBURY You can't learn to write in college. It's a very bad place for writers because the teachers ... RAY BRADBURY You fail only if you stop writing RAY BRADBURY Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious... RAY BRADBURY You ask Why to a lot of things and you wind up very unhappy indeed, if you keep at it. The poor girl... RAY BRADBURY