“You'll accidentally find in barrows of books wrought-iron lines of long-buried poems, handle them with the care that respects ancient but terrible weapons.. .” LongBookCareLinesTerribleWeaponsAncientAccidentsHandleIronBuried Author:Bill Vaughan
“I had this perverse gravitation towards using a terrible cliché sandwiched in between absurd non-clichés because I thought it gave the cliché a new resonance. It kills me when my lyrics are misquoted, but as long as people are quoting them right, I don't care what anybody has to say about them.” PeopleLongCareTerribleDon't CareAbsurdI Don't CareKill MeResonanceQuotingGravitation Author:Paul Banks
“It is ironical that in an age when we have prided ourselves on our progress in the intelligent care and teaching of children we have at the same time put them at the mercy of new and most terrible weapons of destruction.” ChildrenCareAgeEducationProgressTeachingTerribleWeaponsDestructionMercyIntelligentNuclear Weapons Author:Pearl S. Buck
“I thought, how would I feel if my son gave one of those [underprivileged] kids chicken pox? For him it's not a terrible thing. We have good insurance and easy access to health care. It's a different situation for another family. I didn't want to make the decision for them.” IfsWantFeelsDifferentCareKidsEasyDecisionSituationSonTerribleAccessHealth CareChickensMy SonTerrible ThingsUnderprivilegedPoxEasy Access Author:Eula Biss
“If a person feels terrible, it usually should not be shown or acknowledged during a greeting exchange. Instead, the unhappy person is expected to conceal negative feelings, putting on a polite smile to accompany the “Just fine, thank you, and how are you?” reply to the “How are you today?” The true feelings will probably go undetected, not because the smile is such a good mask but because in polite exchanges people rarely care how the other person actually feels.” PeopleIfsFeelsShouldPersonsFeelingsCareTodayFineTerribleNegativeExpectedUnhappyMaskPoliteAccompanyGreetingsHappy PersonTrue FeelingsNegative FeelingsUnhappy Person Author:Paul Ekman