First draft blues:”He tested the stick and glanced at the set handbrake. With his feet he felt the accelerator, the brake, the clutch. Backwards, but otherwise just the same, and comforting in a solid, mechanical way. It even smelled right, oil, petrol, lubricated warm metal, and the polished windshield seemed transparent in the night’s silver flood (J. Gunnar Grey, Deal With the Devil, Part One)
L.A.’s large convenience stores are so big they can accommodate up to twenty armed robbers at one time (Jay Leno)
Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone (Eric Garner, Thinking Skills – Using Your Brain in the Information Age)
Because a man plays a king superbly well does not mean that he would make a good king (Louis L’Amour, Comstock Lode)
too much explanation can take the pleasure out of any poetry.(Preface, vii) – Harold G. Henderson, An Introduction to Haiku
People were fed up with reality shows about midgets getting married and weird Jerry Springer talk shows. There had been a real dry spell of intelligent family-oriented viewing: the type of program that Mom, Dad and the kids can all watch together. With ‘Lost,’ there are just so many characters for people to invest in (Evangeline Lilly)
If God creates morality, then morality is nothing more than the whimsy of a divine being blindly followed by humans (Armin Navabi, Why There Is No God: Simple Responses to 20 Common Arguments for the Existence of God)
“He rose up and looked down at her. “”If I’d known you were out there, I would’ve begun searching for you thousands of years ago.”” Her smile was soft and glorious. “”That was the perfect response.”” “”It’s the truth (Donna Grant, Dark Alpha’s Claim”)
Does anyone want to see a person who’s making the money that the newspapers say I’m making complaining, ‘Woe is me, my life is terrible, and people are being unfair?’ No one would’ve had any patience for that. I wouldn’t have any patience for that. (Matt Lauer)
If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind (John Stuart Mill)