Folk Of The Air Series Quotes

Well, well, if it wasn't the feelings I was trying to avoid. - Cardan Greenbriar, The Folk of The Air Series

Haz uso de tu poder sin que parezca que lo tienes

Revenge is sweet, but icecream is sweeter" - Folk of the air

New Rule: You don't have to teach both sides of a debate if one side is a load of crap. President Bush recently suggested that public schools should teach "intelligent design" alongside the theory of evolution, because after all, evolution is "just a theory." Then the president renewed his vow to "drive the terrorists straight over the edge of the earth." Here's what I don't get: President Bush is a brilliant scientist. He's the man who proved you could mix two parts booze with one part cocaine and still fly a jet fighter. And yet he just can't seem to accept that we descended from apes. It seems pathetic to be so insecure about your biological superiority to a group of feces-flinging, rouge-buttocked monkeys that you have to make up fairy tales like "We came from Adam and Eve," and then cover stories for Adam and Eve, like intelligent design! Yeah, leaving the earth in the hands of two naked teenagers, that's a real intelligent design. I'm sorry, folks, but it may very well be that life is just a series of random events, and that there is no master plan--but enough about Iraq. There aren't necessarily two sides to every issue. If there were, the Republicans would have an opposition party. And an opposition party would point out that even though there's a debate in schools and government about this, there is no debate among scientists. Evolution is supported by the entire scientific community. Intelligent design is supported by the guys on line to see The Dukes of Hazzard. And the reason there is no real debate is that intelligent design isn't real science. It's the equivalent of saying that the Thermos keeps hot things hot and cold things cold because it's a god. It's so willfully ignorant you might as well worship the U.S. mail. "It came again! Praise Jesus!" Stupidity isn't a form of knowing things. Thunder is high-pressure air meeting low-pressure air--it's not God bowling. "Babies come from storks" is not a competing school of throught in medical school. We shouldn't teach both. The media shouldn't equate both. If Thomas Jefferson knew we were blurring the line this much between Church and State, he would turn over in his slave. As for me, I believe in evolution and intelligent design. I think God designed us in his image, but I also think God is a monkey.

What is a king without a crown? That’s a riddle, but one to which we all know the answer: no king at all.

I hate him more than all the others. I hate him so much that sometimes when I look at him, I can hardly breathe...

If I cannot be better than them I will become so much worse...

Most of all, I hate you because I think of you. It's disgusting and I can't stop...

Yes, my sweet villain, my darling god... Sweet Jude. You are my dearest punishment...

By you, I am forever undone...

Come home and shout at me. Come home and fight with me. Come home and break my heart, if you must. Just come home...

You really hate me, don't you?" "Almost as much as you hate me...

Instead of being afraid, I could become something to fear...

-"What could I become if I stopped worrying about death, about pain, about anything? If I stopped trying to belong...?

I want to tell you so many lies...

Folk magic is just that—the magic of the people. It’s never been too complex, if only because these people didn’t have time for fancy magic. Their rituals reflected their simple, subsistence farming lives.

At the turn of the Industrial Revolution, the richest people on the planet didn’t have air-conditioning, running water, or indoor plumbing. They lacked automobiles, refrigerators, and telephones. Plus, computers. Today, even folks living below the US poverty line draw on these conveniences.