All your life, you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye. And when something nudges it into outline, it is like being ambushed by a grotesque.

There is this permanent hope in America that there is some new technology around the corner that will change the world.

On the first day of school, you got to be real careful where you sit. You walk into the classroom and just plunk your stuff down on any old desk, and the next thing you know the teacher is saying, 'I hope you all like where you're sitting, because these are your permanent seats.'

The purpose of going to Mars is for humans to first begin to occupy, permanently, another planet in the solar system. The astronauts or pilgrims, whatever you might call them, are going to be very historically unique human beings.

You see some of these actors, they have a permanent smile on their face. How can they do that? It really fascinates me.

We have but one permanent home: heaven - that's still the old truth that we always have to re-learn - and it's only through the impact of sad experiences that we assimilate it.

Violence and religion have often gone together, but it's not a perfect correlation, and it doesn't have to be a permanent connection, because religions themselves change.

I want a permanent relationship, and I might feel inclined to reject anything which of its nature could not be permanent.

A record company used to be a very good thing, but they ended up soul-destroyingly trapping people in the accounting department. And you couldn't get any further, and the heads of each department were changing all the time, so you couldn't have any permanent relationship within the corporation.

The permanent power brokers of this city are the columnists.

Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.

As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.

Scratch a dog and you'll find a permanent job.

If you want to be a voice for peace in the world, begin by making peace a permanent condition of your own life.

So long as there is imperialism in the world, a permanent peace is impossible.

We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.

When women reassert their relationship with the wildish nature, they are gifted with a permanent and internal watcher, a knower, a visionary, an oracle, an inspiratrice, an intuitive, a maker, a creator, an inventor, and a listener who guide, suggest, and urge vibrant life in the inner and outer world.

A person who suffers from severe locomotor anxiety finds himself in an almost permanent state of mental tension. He wakes in the morning with the anxious expectation of having to go out somewhere in the course of the day.

At medical centers such as the Cleveland Clinic and Kaiser Permanente, teams of doctors and nurses provide coordinated care while working for salary instead of getting paid for every procedure.

Sometimes I bust out and do things so permanent. Like tattoos and marriage.

Marriage is a commitment for life. It is a permanent, lifelong relationship.

Pink Floyd is like a marriage that's on a permanent trial separation.

Concern for 'national security' has introduced unprecedented insecurity to living in the United States as a legal permanent resident.

Felons are typically stripped of the very rights supposedly won in the civil rights movement, including the right to vote, the right to serve on juries, and the right to be free of legal discrimination in employment, housing, access to education, and public benefits. They're relegated to a permanent undercaste.