“I'm not against (bull fighting). Some nations like to see blood, and some like to see their victims suffer from speculation... They kill the bull very quick. Wall Street lets you live and suffer.” SufferingFightingNationsBloodStreetsWallVictimSpeculationBullsGreat Depression Author:Will Rogers
“At last I came to college. I rushed for it with the outstretched arms of youth's aching hunger to give and take of life's deepest, and highest, and I came against the solid wall of the well-fed, well-dressed world - the frigid whitewashed wall of cleanliness. ... How I pinched, and scraped, and starved myself, to save enough to come to college! Every cent of the tuition fee I paid was drops of sweat and blood from underpaid laundry work. And what did I get for it? A crushed spirit, a broken heart, a stinging sense of poverty that I never felt before.” WorldGivingWellsHeartEnoughLastsSpiritFeltEducationPovertyBloodYouthCollegeBrokenWallArmsHighestPaidHungerDisappointmentFedsSweatCentsCrushedCleanlinessLaundryFeesGive And TakeTuitionWell DressedFrigidUnderpaid Author:Anzia Yezierska
“The most successful of the Tartar princes assumed the military command, to which he was entitled by the superiority either of merit or of power. He was raised to the throne by the acclamations of his equals; and the title of Khan expresses, in the language of the North of Asia, the full extent of the regal dignity. The right of hereditary succession was long confined to the blood of the founder of the monarchy; and at this moment all the Khans, who reign from Crimea to the wall of China, are the lineal descendants of the renowned Zingis.” LongMomentsLanguageHistorySuccessfulBloodMilitaryWallDignityRaisedChinaCommandTitlesMeritFoundersEntitledThronesSuperiorityReignAsiaConfinedMonarchySuccessionRoman EmpireDescendantsHereditaryRegalRenownedCrimeaMilitary Command Book:History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire V2: the History Focus Source: History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire V2: the History Focus
“Countless candles dribbled with hot wax, and their flames, like little flags, fluttered in the unchartered currents of air. Thousands of lamps, naked, or shuttered behind coloured glass, burned with their glows of purple, amber, grass-green, blue, blood red and even grey. The walls of Gormenghast were like the walls of paradise or like the walls of an inferno. The colours were devilish or angelical according to the colour of the mind that watched them. They swam, those walls, with the hues of hell, with the tints of Zion. The breasts of the plumaged seraphim; the scales of Satan.” MindLittlesBehindsHellAirBloodWallRedHotBlueGreenGlassesCurrentsScalesNakedGrassFlamesSatanParadiseColourBreastsFlagsCandleBurnedGreyLampsPurpleHueAmberInfernoDevilishZionBlue BloodsGormenghast Book:Gormenghast Source: Gormenghast
“I think it's very important that films like Bad Hurt don't get lost in the mix of the sci-fi-kill-everything-on-the-screen-blood-dripping-down-the-walls sort of the world of the cinema that we live in.” ThinkingWorldImportantFilmLostHurtBloodWallScreensCinemaSci FiDripping Author:Karen Allen
“It's important me as a musician and also as an occasional show goer to feel the presence of a band on stage, to hear a PA reverberating and slapping off the walls, the push and pull of an audience, the blood, sweat, and heat. It's a primal thing in a way.” WayFeelsImportantShowsAudienceBloodStageWallBandMusicianHeatSweatOccasionalPrimalOff The WallSlapping Author:Jacob Bannon
“Catching sight of himself in the long mirrors that ran along the walls, he stiffened in shock...His eyes were surrounded by black shadows, his shirt smeared with dried blood and filthy mud... "Admiring yourself?" The Inquisitor's voice cut through his reverie. "You won't look so pretty when the Clave gets through with you." "You do seem obsessed with my look...Could it be that you're attracted to me?" "Don't be revolting...You could be my son.” LooksLongSeemsEyeBlackVoiceCuttingBloodSonWallShadowSightMirrorsRanObsessedShirtsHis EyesShockMy SonMudCatchingFilthyAdmiringReverie Author:Cassandra Clare
“It bothered me in a kind of Charles Manson way to have a brown smear of blood on my wall but I also liked it because every time I looked at it I was reminded that I was, at that very moment, not bleeding from my face. And those are powerful words of hope, really.” WayKindMomentsFacesPowerfulBloodWallBrownBotheredBleedingMansonPowerful WordsWords Of Hope Author:Miriam Toews