I was struck with a bolt of distilled horror like I have never known before. Far worse than suddenly finding yourself walking through a prison cafeteria wearing Daisy Duke shorts and a Jane Fonda headband.
Augusten Burroughs
Related By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes. E.M. FORSTER It was a good experience working with Roger Vadim and Jane Fonda. TERRY SOUTHERN Looking in the mirror, staring back at me isn't so much a face as the expression of a predicament. COLIN FIRTH I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We... MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. Even some of the industry's most beautiful celebrities shouldn't be wearing (Daisy Dukes). You have ... KATRINA SZISH Suddenly, I felt like I was wearing patchouli in a room full of Chanel. SARAH JESSICA PARKER That's why you wanted to go to work in the morning, to watch Daisy Duke run around in those shorts. JAMES BEST Maybe that's what praying is all about. Maybe it's not just asking God to forgive us for bad things ... SARAH DARER LITTMAN I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse... VALENTINO ROSSI When Goldie Hawn wrote her memoirs, no one said Goldie Hawn was snitching. When Jane Fonda wrote her... KARRINE STEFFANS You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently. Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m... SARAH J. MAAS If a religion asks one to kill another just because he or she follows not this ism, nor agrees with ... FAKEER ISHAVARDAS GOD IS ALWAYS WITH US HE'S NEVER TOOK A SICK DAY ! MITCHELL GREEN Wearing a micro-short skirt is a lot more restrictive than a pair of shorts. ALLE FISTER I'm a thinker. That is what I do, in great depth and detail, every waking moment of the day. I like ... BRIAN HERBERT Unification of differences is power. SHESH NATH VERNWAL History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison SARAH J. MAAS I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you. SARAH J. MAAS He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain... SARAH J. MAAS Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You do what you love, what you need SARAH J. MAAS I turned. Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere... SARAH J. MAAS Daring to dream is not difficult, it's making them come true that is hard... NANETTE L. AVERY I don't want to look like Daisy Duke every day. I don't want to wear a bathing suit every da... JESSICA SIMPSON Be careful of relying on the opinion of others, these are the same people that like liver. NANETTE L. AVERY You know what hurt was those two weeks when we had really nice weather. I was wearing shorts. It's a... JUDY MILLER When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing w... A.A. MILNE Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and s... CARTER CROCKER My other films so far were all like a learning process. I never went through an acting school. I am ... KATRINA KAIF I had never seen a woman in such despair before. It was worse than death, it was a constant longing ... PHILIPPA GREGORY I made sure no butt cheek hung out, ... You know, the original Daisy, Catherine Bach's shorts were s... JESSICA SIMPSON True love is like being struck by a bolt of lightning, which only a select few get to experience. DANI MROUE It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I ... CHARLES DICKENS It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I ... CHARLES DICKENS It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I ... CHARLES DICKENS That boy had wanted to be Ser Arthur Dayne, but someplace along the way he had become the Smiling Kn... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I was watching the news a lot on TV, and was just kind of struck by how, it seemed like every hour, ... DAN ANDERSON I have known sorrow--therefore I
May laugh with you, O friend, more merrily
Than those who nev... MRS. FREDERIC J. FAULKS ("THEODOSIA PICKERING GARRISON") If we tend to the things that are important in life, if we are right with those we love, and behave ... MITCH ALBOM It is a far, far better thing that I do, than anything I have ever done; it is a far, far, better re... CHARLES DICKENS When a lot of voices, make up a noise, the man who is silent represents a voice. APURVA GAGLANI We were marching since we were babies and all we did was make Jane Fonda famous. ROBERT PATRICK [With her heart set on landing the part of Daisy Duke, Simpson beat out Britney Spears for it. By th... BILL GERBER I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind. C LIONG A person of value have skill, a vision & a deep desire to achieve what they dream for. Happiness com... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA A man of guilt acknowledges and changes himself immediately on being hinted slightly about his fault... ANUJ SOMANY The school year progressed slowly. I felt as if I had been in the sixth grade for years, yet it was ... LUCY GREALY The value of a consultant;An outsider can see what an insider cannot see or has decided to ignore. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A family is like a card game, on one hand, you can get a really bad hand and on the other, your hand... GARY F EVANS... The worth of a person’s quote is in his or her heart where it takes the birth and the value of the... ANUJ SOMANY Walking the rugged trail of the unknown destiny can be filled with walls crashing and cracks on the ... GARY F EVANS... It makes you wonder why the human race can be so selfish and self-centered sometimes, when on cold w... GARY F EVANS... To have a pet in the family is to invite good health into your lives.It brings happiness to all and ... GARY F EVANS... I can see you have a great deal of water in your personality. Water never waits. It changes shape an... ARTHUR GOLDEN كنت أصمت أذعن لمصيري. أحمل دميتي,أنزع ملابسها, أشد شعره�... مليكة مستظرف The norm which the society at large has set today categorically is in the form of preventive measure... HENRIETTA NEWTON MARTIN LEGAL CONSULTANT Aye, well, I've got my garden. LIKE I I told my Nike representative, 'Why didn't you guys use me for this?''' Williams said, laughing. LIKE I On the interception, I was out of bounds, LIKE I casually made his 'abort black fetuses' argument. LIKE I I can field my position. If I start worrying about being ready for a line drive too soon that means ... LIKE I I told him that he played a great game,'' said Falcons quarterback Michael Vick , who like Manning w... LIKE I I was so concerned with getting the ball out of my hands and not taking the sack, that sometimes I t... LIKE I I knew I had to throw the ball better,'' Manning said of his poor start. LIKE I I think the reason that I have that title or that moniker is because people don't know what to expec... LIKE I You're either ready and prepared to take on the task, or you're not,'' he said. LIKE I I did not have one butterfly out there today,'' he said. LIKE I Married to the Mob. LIKE I Hello you're with Drudge. LIKE I I don't expect Christian Fundamentalists to reach out to me. They are adamant that homosexuals are i... LIKE I throw enough shit at the wall and some should stick? LIKE I I'm not happy, that's all I can say about it,'' he said. LIKE I Obedience is bondage, if God wants to be adored he should make himself more loving. LAURA WHITCOMB If thinking is your fate, revere this fate with divine honour and sacrifice to it the best, the most... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Life is a divine blessing for those who live life to add values in the lives of others. SEEMA BRAIN OPENERS She made a fence of phrases, which seemed a treachery to herself. ELIZABETH TAYLOR You are the blood of the dragon. You can make a hat. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN All I know is that when I was a kid the Vietnam war was on and Jane Fonda was the own person standin... ROSIE O'DONNELL [Critics] could not forgive Jane Fonda for doing fluff, like she had to do something with mucho grav... ROBERT LUKETIC Being second generation in Hollywood is complicated: Success is expected, and yet the track record o... KIRK DOUGLAS I made sure no butt cheek hung out. You know, the original Daisy, Catherine Bach's shorts were s... JESSICA SIMPSON If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live wi... JOAN POWERS Supposing a tree fell down, Pooh, when we were underneath it?' 'Supposing it didn't,' said Pooh... A.A. MILNE How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS This recipe came to me like a lightning bolt out of the blue. I think it is a great way to enjoy wel... ANNA GINSBERG I want to share this bed with you, though," I breathed. "I want you to hold me." Stars flicker... SARAH J. MAAS I never said to be like me, I say be yourself and make a difference. MARILYN MANSON She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I think metal and horror definitely go hand in hand. Even when you go to a horror convention and mee... ADAM GREEN I've been wearing shorts for the last six weeks, so it was a bit of a shock. But I love playing thes... BRIAN DAVIS I'll bet, ... But you know, I look from the outside at this marriage and I say, 'Jane Fonda did it a... LESLEY STAHL Loving someone selflessly would mean sharing their happiness whether you are part of that happiness ... SANDHYA JANE The timing couldn't have been worse, basically, ... I was playing the best tennis of my life. I was ... ALICIA MOLIK It's a horrible freak accident. Apparently, a lightning bolt struck the mine. WILBUR ROSS Between the sisters' joined hands, the pressure of their pulses mingled in steady throbs. Daisy was ... LISA KLEYPAS I had to get used to wearing a mask and wearing a prosthetic and performing with those things while ... GERARD BUTLER I think it's a different type of horror film than has existed before, JENNIFER CONNELLY Like a deep sad note played beneath the ocean waving through the orb the memories of ... PAWAN MISHRA
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JOHN BURROUGHS Temperament lies behind mood; behind will, lies the fate of character. Then behind both, the influen... JOHN BURROUGHS Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all. JOHN BURROUGHS Every walk to the woods is a religious rite, every bath in the stream is a saving ordinance. Communi... JOHN BURROUGHS The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of t... JOHN BURROUGHS One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: "To rise above the little things." JOHN BURROUGHS Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all -- that has been my religion. JOHN BURROUGHS A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. JOHN BURROUGHS It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative. JOHN BURROUGHS Serene I told my hands and wait,
Nor care for wind or tide nor sea;
I rave no more 'gainst tim... JOHN BURROUGHS Without death and decay, how could life go on? JOHN BURROUGHS Holiness is the very principle of eternal life, the very beginning of eternal life in the heart, and... JEREMIAH BURROUGHS The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I s... JOHN BURROUGHS Our flying squirrel is in no proper sense a flyer. On the ground, he is more helpless than a chipmun... JOHN BURROUGHS I am for 100 per cent Americanism, 100 per cent efficiency, and 100 per cent life. I expect to live ... JOHN BURROUGHS The animal world seizes its food in masses little and big, and often gorges itself with it, but the ... JOHN BURROUGHS He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration ... JOHN BURROUGHS The phoebe-bird is a wise architect and perhaps enjoys as great an immunity from danger, both in its... JOHN BURROUGHS Women are about the best lovers of nature, after all; at least of nature in her milder and more fami... JOHN BURROUGHS The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention. JOHN BURROUGHS In October, a maple tree before your window lights up your room like a great lamp. Even on cloudy da... JOHN BURROUGHS To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed b... JOHN BURROUGHS The common bees will never use their sting upon the queen; if she is to be disposed of, they starve ... JOHN BURROUGHS A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. JOHN BURROUGHS I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The momen... JOHN BURROUGHS It seems to me that evolution adds greatly to the wonder of life because it takes it out of the real... JOHN BURROUGHS England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay. JOHN BURROUGHS August is the month of the high-sailing hawks. The hen hawk is the most noticeable. He likes the haz... JOHN BURROUGHS One of the most graceful of warriors is the robin. I know few prettier sights than two males challen... JOHN BURROUGHS I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral. JOHN BURROUGHS To regard the soul and body as one, or to ascribe to consciousness a physiological origin, is not de... JOHN BURROUGHS It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the su... JOHN BURROUGHS Without the name, any flower is still more or less a stranger to you. The name betrays its family, i... JOHN BURROUGHS The art of the bird is to conceal its nest both as to position and as to material, but now and then ... JOHN BURROUGHS When the woodpecker is searching for food, or laying siege to some hidden grub, the sound of his ham... JOHN BURROUGHS The type of mind of Whitman's, which seldom or never emerges as a mere mentality, an independent... JOHN BURROUGHS For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self... JOHN BURROUGHS The country is more of a wilderness, more of a wild solitude, in the winter than in the summer. The ... JOHN BURROUGHS Birds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; that is, they have not self-consci... JOHN BURROUGHS The life of a swarm of bees is like an active and hazardous campaign of an army: the ranks are being... JOHN BURROUGHS One reason, doubtless, why squirrels are so bold and reckless in leaping through the trees is that, ... JOHN BURROUGHS If America wishes to preserve her native birds, we must help supply what civilization has taken from... JOHN BURROUGHS Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christia... JEFF BURROUGHS Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing. The city, a place to which one goes to... JOHN BURROUGHS The red squirrel is more common and less dignified than the gray, and oftener guilty of petty larcen... JOHN BURROUGHS The love of nature is a different thing from the love of science, though the two may go together. JOHN BURROUGHS Emerson is the spokesman and prophet of youth and of a formative, idealistic age. His is a voice fro... JOHN BURROUGHS Literature is an investment of genius which has dividends to all subsequent times JOHN BURROUGHS To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, but to imagine your facts is another. JOHN BURROUGHS Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thin... JOHN BURROUGHS The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. JOHN BURROUGHS The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in
winter; the fleshy, in summer. I... JOHN BURROUGHS