#pendulum

Doing the limbo under a razor pendulum is a lot cheaper than having a caesarian in a hospital. ↗

— Bauvard

#funny #humor #pendulum #pregnancy #funny

The pendulum is swinging back to the HD-DVD camp. ↗

— John Freeman

#camp #pendulum #swinging

In death - no! even in the grave all is not lost. Else there is no immortality for man. Arousing from the most profound slumbers, we break the gossamer web of some dream. Yet in a second afterward, (so frail may that web have been) we remember not that we have dreamed. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#immortality #life-after-death #the-pit-and-the-pendulum #death

She had become so thoroughly annealed into his life that she was like the air he breathed--necessary but scarcely noticed. ↗

— O. Henry

#the-pendulum #wife #life

There must be a connection between the lust for power and impotentia coeundi. I liked Marx, I was sure that he and his Jenny had made love merrily. You can feel it in the easy pace of his prose and in his humor. On the other hand, I remember remarking one day in the corridors of the university that if you screwed Krupskaya all the time, you'd end up writing a lousy book like Materialism and Empiriocriticism. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#lenin #umberto-eco #love

Politics swings like a pendulum. ↗

— Ed Gillespie

#pendulum #politics #swings

I'm trying to mix the cool, independent stuff with the big stuff, but it's been difficult finding the right roles. It's been an interesting ride as far as my career pendulum is concerned. ↗

— Orlando Bloom

#been #big #big stuff #career #concerned

The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong. ↗

— Carl Jung

#mind #nonsense #pendulum #right #right and wrong

History has always been a series of pendulum swings, but the individual doesn't have to get caught in that. ↗

— Robert Johnson

#been #caught #get #history #individual

Our culture is just a series of checks and balances. The whole idea that we're in a battle between tyranny and freedom - it's a series of pendulum swings. ↗

— Jon Stewart

#battle #between #checks #culture #freedom