#ff

Mr. Darwin contributes some striking and ingenious instances of the way in which the principle partially affects the chain, or rather network of life, even to the total obliteration of certain meshes. ↗

— Richard Owen

#certain #chain #contributes #darwin #even

In the due exercise of your official power, in strictest accordance with law and the Constitution, you can deprive the enemy of that which, above all else, has given, and still gives him, aid and comfort. ↗

— Robert Dale Owen

#accordance #aid #comfort #constitution #deprive

If you take my stuff apart, you'll find my choruses of repetitions are picked up almost verbatim from Kurt Vonnegut, and my distanced fracture quality is all from Amy Hempel, who's probably my favourite writer. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#amy #apart #choruses #favourite #find

My mother told me on several different occasions that she was livin' her dream vicariously through me. She once said that I was getting' to do all the things that she would have wanted to have done. ↗

— Buck Owens

#different #done #dream #getting #her

I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues. ↗

— Jimmy Page

#cultures #different #different cultures #had #i

A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#effort #ever #expect #minute #moment

A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted by android Barbie creep. All those thick swatches of lifeless strands clustering lankly round ladies' necks! Like orange tanning spray, this is a fashion fad that should be put out of its misery. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#android #barbie #children #complaint #creep

I love those hockey moms. You know what they say the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull is? Lipstick. ↗

— Sarah Palin

#bull #difference #hockey #i #i love

Capo, my first golden retriever, so loved to swim she once jumped off a cliff to get into Lake Superior. ↗

— Sara Paretsky

#first #get #golden #into #jumped

Your memorabilia becomes more significant. It does put you in a different category. ↗

— Jim Palmer

#category #different #does #memorabilia #more