#penn

She thought it funny how the poor environment had been raped just fine until there was a sufficient excess of the people who had effected the raping to produce sufficient numbers of themselves who were sufficiently idle that they might begin to protest the raping of the environment, which was irretrievably lost to the raping by that point. And this would be the great soothing cathedral music, the stopping of the chainsaws amid the patter of acid rain, that all good citizens would listen to for the quarter-century it took them all to wire up to cyberspace and forget about the lost hopeless run-over gang-ridden land, reproducing madly still all the while, inside their bunkers listening to NPR. ↗

— Padgett Powell

#political-causes #the-pennant-race #truth #men

Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#fame #openness #patience #receptivity #fame

I never took a grant or borrowed a penny from anybody. It was partially because I didn't really know how to do that, but secondly, my pride never would have allowed me to. In the beginning it was about doing it the right way, on the merits of the music. ↗

— Bryan Adams

#anybody #because #borrowed #grant #how

I don't believe a manager ever won a pennant. Casey Stengel won all those pennants with the Yankees. How many did he win with the Boston Braves and Mets? ↗

— Sparky Anderson

#boston #braves #casey #did #ever

Just give me 25 guys on the last year of their contracts; I'll win a pennant every year. ↗

— Sparky Anderson

#every #give #give me #guys #i

And, I believe that if a man dies with a single penny still sitting in the bank, he's a fool. ↗

— Dan Aykroyd

#believe #dies #fool #i #i believe

Shockingly, a University of Pennsylvania study says the number of young people addicted to gambling - largely due to increased exposure to the Internet and Internet gambling - grew by an alarming 20 percent between 2004 and 2005 alone. ↗

— Spencer Bachus

#alarming #alone #between #due #exposure

I don't get it when you get so much openness about the way movies are made, and the special effects and the behind-the-scenes stuff and all of that. I can't help but feel like this reduces it a little bit. ↗

— Christian Bale

#bit #effects #feel #get #help

Electricity can be dangerous. My nephew tried to stick a penny into a plug. Whoever said a penny doesn't go far didn't see him shoot across that floor. I told him he was grounded. ↗

— Tim Allen

#dangerous #electricity #far #floor #go

My principal once told me that I was a penny waiting for change. But I suspect that I irritated him probably because I was making more money than he was. ↗

— GG Allin

#change #him #i #irritated #making