My vocation to preach on paper.
I want to be a student for life.
I wanna try and stay a student for life.
I think punk rock, especially for me, was a big middle finger to this whole talent thing.
Punk is not really a style of music. It was more like a state of mind.
You need bad things to make good things. It’s like with farming— if you want to grow a good crop, you need a lot of manure.
The only thing new is you finding out about something. Like nothing's really new, but you reinvent it for yourself and find your inner voice.
Goering got into endless arguments with other officers [and] he did not like routine work.
It's settled, then," Grace said. She turned back to Nick. "Take the Jag to the car wash and for heaven's sake clean the McDonald's Happy Meal boxes out of it. " "Hey," Nick said, his face offended. "That's a low blow. Those boxes are collectibles.
What makes people want to live forever? I don't think it's limited to our materialistic society of today. Even back to Christian times, they were writing about eternal life after death. So even in death there was a discussion of eternal life. I think this is a universal human desire. It's a horrible thought that this conscious being of ours - with our beautiful bodies - is one day going to decay and die. I don't think it so much has to do with the fear of meeting God, as it is just the thought that this all ends.
Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee. … You ask for votes for women. What good can votes do when ten-elevenths of the land of Great Britain belongs to 200,000 and only one-eleventh to the rest of the 40,000,000? Have your men with their millions of votes freed themselves from this injustice?