That country [Carthage] was rapidly sinking into the state of barbarism from whence it had been raised by the Phoenician colonies and… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
*Appendix usually means "small outgrowth from large intestine," but in this case it means "additional information accompanying main text." Or are those… — Pseudonymous Bosch Copy Share Image
“As I enter the small intestine I get squeezed by muscles. Its dark and the walls look like slimey crushed velvet theres… — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
One only wishes Wayne LaPierre and his NRA board of directors could be drafted to some of these scenes, where they would… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
What is it that you contain? The Dead. Time. Light patterns of millennia. The expanding universe opening in your gut. Are your… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Intestine war no more our passions wage, And giddy factions bear away their rage. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The three branches of government number considerably more than three and are not, in any sense, 'branches' since that would imply that… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
It's gross. We use real brains. I think they're lamb or cow or something. Intestines smell. Brains don't really smell, but what's… — Ellen Pompeo Copy Share Image
It's an appreciation for life generally, every bit of life, the smallest creature that lives in the intestines of termites that make… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
He gave me his word. That means something to a man like Donovan Caine. Yeah, it means you'll realize he's an exceptionally… — Jennifer Estep Copy Share Image
Just as bones, tissues, intestines, and blood vessels are enclosed in a skin that makes it possible to bear the sight of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
All prejudices may be traced back to the intestines. A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Ghost. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
[On journalists:] They are as disruptive a menace to the public body: as grating turds in the intestines are to the private… — Caitlin Thomas Copy Share Image
If you stretched the average person's intestines out from end to end, it would make them scream a lot. — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
The people who flood our living-rooms with a smorgasbord of commercial messages about fetid breath, moist underarms and troubled intestines know this:… — George Will Copy Share Image
He willed his body to remain unaffected. Sabin would fuss if Strider sported a hard-on around his precious. And, of course, "fuss"… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
We try not to waste food in general. Because as a meat eater it's just responsible to eat as much of the… — Thu Tran Copy Share Image
The Prelude to Tristan and Isolde reminds me of the old Italian painting of a martyr whose intestines are slowly unwound from… — Eduard Hanslick Copy Share Image
[The heart is] really a fascinating organ. It's about the only organ in the body that you can really witness its function.… — Denton Cooley Copy Share Image
When a liver becomes cirrhotic, those are the common complications. We see that the patients have bleeding from their stomach and intestines.… — John Roberts Copy Share Image
I do not need wireless access to Wikipedia. I would prefer to stir-fry my own small intestines than to have continual access… — Tara Brabazon Copy Share Image
'Life', said Emerson, "consists in what a man is thinking all day." If that be so, then my life is nothing but… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The place whereon the priest formerly raveled out the small intestine of the sacrificial victim for purposes of divination and cooked its… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Since I've been in the U.S. I've lost the back of my heart, 15 ft. of intestine and my marriage - and… — Nigel Lythgoe Copy Share Image
George had taken off all ten of his fingers and tied them into a bundle with what appeared to be either his… — Alan Goldsher Copy Share Image