I pictured a rangy Asian cowgirl in a lab coat and Stetson, a bandolier of specimen vials jangling against her modest cleavage as she clutches in one hand the reins of a galloping stallion, in the other a filament delicate enough to boink a few islet cells into a failing pancreas.
James McManus, "Please Stand By While the Age of Miracles is Briefly Suspended"
Let's not flatter ourselves: If we do not find it within ourselves to identify the terrorism inspired by radical Islam as an unequivocal evil - and to pronounce ourselves morally superior to it - then we have lost the ability to identify any evil at all, and out democracy is not only diminished, it dissolves into the meaninglessness of privilege.
Tom Junod, "The Case for George W. Bush"
I'd like to talk to Jesus about those twelve disciples. They were a great public relations team.
Jack LaLanne, "What I've Learned"
Would you get your dog up every day, give him a cup of coffee, a doughnut, and a cigarette? Hell, no. You'd kill the damn dog.
Jack LaLanne, "What I've Learned"
We're talking bass. The most mustachioed of sports. Bass as in badass jammed together to form a single handy monosyllable.
Benjamin Alsup, "A Fish Story"