“I have actually programmed a fair bit in Perl, like I have C++ code published with my name on it. Other things I have tried and have no intention to do again if I can at all avoid it include smoking, getting drunk enough to puke and waste the whole next day with hang-over, breaking a leg in a violent car crash, getting mugged in New York City, or travel with Aeroflot.” IfsI CanEnoughWholeNextNamesBitsCitiesCarNew YorkWasteFairsIntentionLegsViolentDrunkCodeSmokingNew York CityCrashNext DayGetting DrunkPukeCar CrashPerlHang Over Author:Erik Naggum
“my Mamá Grande, a tiny Mayan woman, took me aside when I was an adolescent and told me several things that didn't make a bit of sense to my young and inattentive ears, and as young people tend to waste all attempts of our elders to relay to us wisdom accumulated over the decades, I thought my Mamá Grande had a few mice in the attic.” PeopleYoungBitsWasteEarsDecadesTinyMiceEldersAtticsRelays Book:Sapogonia: An Anti-romance in 3/8 Meter Source: Sapogonia: An Anti-romance in 3/8 Meter
“[On The Waste Land:] Various critics have done me the honor to interpret the poem in terms of criticism of the contemporary world, have considered it, indeed, as an important bit of social criticism. To me it was only the relief of a personal and wholly insignificant grouse against life; it is just a piece of rhythmical grumbling.” WorldImportantDoneSocialBitsTermPiecesLandHonorWasteCriticismCriticsVariousContemporaryReliefInsignificantGrumblingWaste Land Author:T. S. Eliot
“If a story seems moral, do not believe it. If at the end of a war story you feel uplifted, or if you feel that some small bit of rectitude has been salvaged from the larger waste, then you have been made the victim of a very old and terrible lie.” IfsFeelsBelieveHas BeensMadeWarEndsStoriesSeemsLyingBitsMoralTerribleWasteVictimWar StoriesRectitude Book:The Things They Carried Source: The Things They Carried
“We can make most, if not all, of America's fuel from alcohol, from bits of plants leftover after they are harvested, from the hundreds of millions of tons of municipal waste we produce, and the over 1 trillion gallons of sewage we produce.” IfsAmericaBitsMillionsProduceWastePlantAlcoholFuelGallonsSewage Author:Josh Tickell
“What I was trying to convey there was the kind of waste land that was left after the war. It was a bit like one always thinks of war, you know, stark scenery and no birds, no trees, no leaves, nothing living. And just emptiness.” ThinkingKnowsTryingKindWarLeftBitsTreeLandWasteBirdEmptinessStarksSceneryWaste Land Author:George Martin
“He slowed down a bit more. "Gaia, how do you know these things?" She shrugged. "I'm smart." "And modest, too." "Modesty is a waste of time," she pronounced. "I'll keep that in mind.” KnowsMindBitsWasteSmartDo You KnowWasting TimeModestyModestGaia Book:Fearless: Fearless; Sam; Run Source: Fearless: Fearless; Sam; Run