Logo
When you can't do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pen

When you can’t do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing. – Lois McMaster Bujold

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Civilization
category

The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering the prisons. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Category:
Civilization

K is for “Kenghis Khan.” He was a very nice person. History has no record of him. There is a moral in that, somewhere. – Harlan Ellison, From A to Z in the Chocolate Alphabet

Category:
Civilization

Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples and nations, into one great unity, the unity of mankind. Why this has to happen, we do not know; the work of Eros is precisely this. – Sigmund Freud

Category:
Civilization

Progress may have been all right once, but it went on too long… – Ogden Nash, “Come, Come, Kerouac! My Generation is Beater Than Yours,” New Yorke

Category:
Civilization

Random Quotes

Watergate provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of government. It also is a morality play with a sad and dramatic ending. – Bob Woodward

Category:
Government

I dont think kids have a problem with death. Its us older ones who are nearer to it, that start being frightened. – Helena Bonham Carter

Category:
Death

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth. – Arthur Balfour

Category:
Truth

The Good Humor man can only be pushed so far. – Nancy Cartwright

Category:
Humor