Father: [singing] Every sperm is sacred/Every sperm is great/If a sperm is wasted/God gets quite irate.
Bree Osbourne: [Getting ready to face her parents] Shit. I mean darn. No, I mean shit.
Often people, when they're confronted with a poem, it's like someone who keep saying 'what is the meaning of this? What is the meaning of this?' And that dulls us to the other pleasures poetry offers.
I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down'.
Reggae music don't really focus on one thing, you know. If reggae music is speaking about the struggle of people, and the suffering, it don't mean black people. It mean people in general.
I'm extremely blessed to have the extraordinary mother that I have, and I don't mean Diana Ross, I mean the mother. My mom paved a road that didn't exist, as did Oprah.
It will no longer be war that is the continuation of politics by other means, it will be what I have dubbed 'the integral accident' that is the continuation of politics by other means.
Being insulted again and again it doesn't mean that you haven't self respect. It means that you value someone most.
Jokes are a lot about meaning. I think if we understand what jokes mean and why they work, we'd understand everything else. Genuinely I do.
The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.
Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.
I'm the true definition of a workaholic.
Languages are true analytical methods.
True nobility is exempt from fear.
Spring is a true reconstructionist.
The true republic: men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.
I'm not a true vegan.
Silence!” Korbolo snapped. He eyed Duiker. “You are the historian who rode with Coltaine.” The historian faced him. “I am.” “You are a soldier.” “As you say.” “I do, and so you shall die with these soldiers, in a manner no differe...
And I thought, y’know, I mean…this is crazy. I mean, the only thing that determines what country you belong to is where you happened to be born? What is a country, anyway? It’s not, y’know, “purple mountain’s majesty” or “fruited plai...
Find meaning. Distinguish melancholy from sadness. Go out for a walk. It doesn’t have to be a romantic walk in the park, spring at its most spectacular moment, flowers and smells and outstanding poetical imagery smoothly transferring you into anoth...
Tears have meaning but only he who sheds them understands.