“All I ask of life, he says, is a bunch of books, a bunch of dreams, and a bunch of cunt.”
Henry Miller book Tropic of Cancer
Source: Tropic of Cancer
Lewell, "The Art of Chuck Jones", 137.
“All I ask of life, he says, is a bunch of books, a bunch of dreams, and a bunch of cunt.”
Henry Miller book Tropic of Cancer
Source: Tropic of Cancer
“Would I rather the research lab that tests animals is reduced to a bunch of cinders? Yes.”
Ingrid Newkirk (1949) British-American activist
New York Daily News, 1997 December 7.
On animal research and activism against it
“He thought how sad it was to be an Animal who had never had a bunch of violets picked for him.”
A.A. Milne (1882–1956) British author
Nick Diaz (1983) American mixed martial artist
Diaz describing the Nevada Athletic Commission after failing his UFC 183 drug test (2015)
“Nothing but a damn bunch of bullshit!”
Harry Truman (1884–1972) American politician, 33rd president of the United States (in office from 1945 to 1953)
On General Douglas MacArthur's "Old Soldiers Never Die" speech, as quoted in The Fifties (1993) by David Halberstam
Jill Shalvis (1963) American writer
Source: Simply Irresistible
“Man is the animal that draws lines which he himself then stumbles over.”
Piet Hein (1905–1996) Danish puzzle designer, mathematician, author, poet
As quoted in Scandinavian Review (2003), by the American-Scandinavian Foundation, p. 18
Context: Man is the animal that draws lines which he himself then stumbles over. In the whole pattern of civilization there have been two tendencies, one toward straight lines and rectangular patterns and one toward circular lines. There are reasons, mechanical and psychological, for both tendencies. Things made with straight lines fit well together and save space. And we can move easily — physically or mentally — around things made with round lines. But we are in a straitjacket, having to accept one or the other, when often some intermediate form would be better.
“Americans are an odd bunch, but they grow on you.”
Rick Riordan book The Serpent's Shadow
Source: The Serpent's Shadow