#rung

Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

#almost #becoming #century #everything #fiction

When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#bell #conservative #funeral #men #nation

I seriously do not think Nirvana is grunge. ↗

— Adam Jones

#i #nirvana #seriously #think

It is a good rule never to see or talk to the man whose words have wrung your heart, or helped it, just as it is wise not to look down too closely at the luminous glow which sometimes shines on your path on a summer night, if you would not see the ugly worm below. ↗

— Rebecca Harding Davis

#closely #down #glow #good #heart

Best two rock voices I've heard in a last few years both have been from grunge bands: it's Eddie Vedder and the other one is Chris Cornell from Soundgarden. ↗

— Bruce Dickinson

#been #best #both #chris #cornell

When I played for the Steelers and I got my bell rung, I'd take smelling salts and go right back out there. ↗

— Terry Bradshaw

#bell #go #got #i #out

Raising the debt ceiling is not additional spending. It is simply saying, you, the United States of America, can continue to borrow the money you need to pay the bills you have already rung up. ↗

— Jay Carney

#already #america #bills #borrow #ceiling

If something anticipated arrives too late it finds us numb, wrung out from waiting, and we feel - nothing at all. The best things arrive on time. ↗

— Dorothy Gilman

#arrive #arrives #best #feel #finds

Hesitation before birth. If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#before #birth #bottom #hesitation #i

The fishes are also employed for the same purpose on any yard, which happens to be sprung or fractured. Thus their form, application, and utility are exactly like those of the splinters applied to a broken limb in surgery. ↗

— William Falconer

#any #application #applied #broken #employed