“Some people, you have to grit your teeth in order to stay in the same room as them, but you get on and ask the questions you assume most of the people watching want to ask.” PeopleWantOrderAsksRoomsAssumingTeethGrit Author:Morley Safer
“I will tell you what man is. He is a freak, an ejected foetus robbed of his natural development, thrown out into the world with a naked covering of parchment, with too little room for his teeth and a soft bulging skull like a bubble. But nature stirs a pudding there.” MenWorldLittlesNaturalRoomsDevelopmentTeethNakedThrownFreakBubblesCoveringSkullsPudding Author:William Golding
“[T]his free and easy old-bachelor sort of life is quite full of fun and jollity. Pease and myself room together; and everything like order and neatness is banished from our presence as a nuisance--old letters and old boots and shoes, duds clean and duds dirty, books and newspapers, tooth-brushes, shoe-brushes, and clothes-brushes, all heaped together on chairs, settees, etc., in dusty and "most admired confusion." Now, what is there imaginable in clean, tidy private life equal to this?” BookTogetherLife IsOrderFunEasyRoomsEqualClothesLettersCleanShoesNewspapersTeethConfusionDirtyEtcChairsBootsBrushesPrivate LifeBachelorsTidyNuisanceNeatnessOld Letters Author:Rutherford B. Hayes
“When they played, it wasn't music. It was the sound of chaos. I knew it was the sound of chaos because you could hear pigs being slaughtered. Women were weeping and men were gnashing their teeth, and there were sounds so horrible that I cannot repeat them to you, or you would flee from this room in horror!” MenHumorFunnySoundRoomsHorrorChaosHorribleTeethRepeatsPigsWeeping Author:Lewis Black
“There is something disorderly about the death of a young person. In a universe disturbed by so much over which we have no control, an untimely tragedy rattles the teeth of our already shaken confidence. We want to domesticate death, fight it on our own turf, in familiar rooms with shades drawn evenly, top sheets turned back, and a circle of hushed voices closing in.” WantPersonsYoungDeathFightingUniverseVoiceRoomsTragedyCirclesTeethFamiliarShadeSheetsClosingDisturbedTurf Book:A Leak in the Heart: Tales from a Woman's Life Source: A Leak in the Heart: Tales from a Woman's Life