“How could poetry and literature have arisen from something as plebian as the cuneiform equivalent of grocery-store bar codes? I prefer the version in which Prometheus brought writing to man from the gods. But then I remind myself that...we should not be too fastidious about where great ideas come from. Ultimately, they all come from a wrinkled organ that at its healthiest has the color and consistency of toothpaste, and in the end only withers and dies.” MenShouldWritingIdeasEndsDiesLiteratureColorStoresBarsVersionsCodeOrgansConsistencyGroceriesGreat IdeaGrocery StoresToothpastePrometheusFastidiousCuneiform Author:Alice Weaver Flaherty
“Buffy the Vampire Slayer showed the whole world, and an entire sprawling industry, that writing monsters and demons and end-of-the-world is not hack-work, it can challenge the best. Joss Whedon raised the bar for every writer - not just genre or niche writers, but every single one of us.” WorldWritingEndsWholeChallengesIndustryRaisedMonstersBarsWhole WorldVampireGenreDemonWorking ItEnd Of The WorldNicheHacksSlayerBuffy The Vampire Slayer Author:Russell T Davies
“I use the term bar-room to represent every means for the sale and traffic in liquor, and I earnestly appeal to the people to put an end to the traffic, no matter under what name or guise it may be carried on.” PeopleMayMeanEndsMatterUseNamesTermRoomsBarsAppealsTrafficLiquorGuiseVery Mean Author:Thomas Jordan Jarvis
“A declaration of war on the masses by higher men is needed! ... Everything that makes soft and effeminate, that serves the end of the people or the feminine, works in favor of universal suffrage, i.e. the domination of the inferior men. But we should take reprisal and bring this whole affair to light and the bar of judgment.” PeopleMenShouldWarEndsWholeLightNeededHigherJudgmentMassUniversalAffairFavorsBarsFeminineInferiorsDeclarationDominationSuffrageUniversal SuffrageReprisalDeclaration Of War Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“I am a thing not new, I am as old As human nature. I am that which lurks, Ready to spring whenever a bar is loosed; The ancient trait which fights incessantly Against restraint, balks at the upward climb; The weight forever seeking to obey The law of downward pull; and I am more: The bitter fruit am I of planted seed; The resultant, the inevitable end Of evil forces and the powers of wrong.” HumansEndsLawFightingEvilForceForeverHuman NatureReadySpringWeightFruitAncientSeekingSeedsBarsBitterInevitableClimbsTraitsRestraintIncessantly Author:James Weldon Johnson