#troll

There's a lot of things that go on when you're on tour that cannot be controlled. I'm not even talking about myself, but of course there's sexual activity and drugs, fighting and language; it is certainly not a place to raise a family. ↗

— Peter Steele

#activity #cannot #certainly #controlled #course

If you're an addict, it controls your life and your life becomes uncontrollable. It's boring and painful, filling your system with something that makes you stare at your shoes for six hours. ↗

— James Taylor

#becomes #boring #controls #filling #hours

A world in which others controlled the course of their own development, would be a world in which the American system would be seriously endangered. ↗

— Benjamin Cohen

#controlled #course #development #endangered #others

Magic Sandra’s seen a leprechaun, Eddie touched a troll, Laurie danced with witches once, Charlie found some goblins gold. Donald heard a mermaid sing, Susy spied an elf, But all the magic I have known I've had to make myself. ↗

— Shel Silverstein

#goblin #humor #leprechaun #life #magic

Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature. ↗

— Edward Thorndike

#accustomed #beings #controlling #events #having

Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel. ↗

— Voltaire

#anyone #controlling #destroy #instead #passions

Almost anything is better than three network TV outlets completely controlling the national discourse with their nightly broadcasts. We've moved a long way from that, and that's important. ↗

— Jimmy Wales

#anything #better #broadcasts #completely #controlling

The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases. ↗

— Larry Wall

#controlled #damn #harvard #humidity #law

The boredom occasioned by too much restraint is always preferable to that produced by an uncontrolled enthusiasm for a pointless variety. ↗

— Osbert Lancaster

#boredom #enthusiasm #much #occasioned #pointless

In America the schools have become too permissive, the kids now are controlling the schools, the tail is wagging the dog. We've got to make a change there and get it back to where the teachers have control of the classrooms. ↗

— Chuck Norris

#america #back #become #change #classrooms