1984 Class Division Quotes & Sayings

Anger is the feeling that makes your mouth work faster than your mind. — Evan Esar

A close relationship, she thought. As far as they are concerned, all that means is a threat to which they don't want to expose themselves. — Henning Mankell

But for us there are moments, O, how solemn, when destiny trembles in the balance and the preponderance of either scale is by our own choice. — Mark Hopkins

Words may be either the servants or masters. If the former they may safely guide us in the way of truth. If the latter they intoxicate the brain and lead into swamps of thought where there is no solid footing. Among the sources of those innumerable calamities which from age to age have overwhelmed mankind, may be reckoned as one of the principal, the abuse of words. — George Horne

There are these people who keep taking you in and feeding you and loving you and making the world a tiny bit safer than it feels. People have community and family, but existentially we are deeply isolated. — Anne Lamott

I wouldn't call myself a standup in the presence of Jerry Seinfeld or Chris Rock, but I do my share of it and it has been and remains part of my activity and I like it. — Alan Thicke

I grew up in Florida, so you start swimming at the age of 1, really. By 10, I was competitive swimming, and by 12, I had aspirations to be the best in the world. — Diana Nyad

Were there no uniforms, there would probably be no armies. — Benjamin Banneker

Our bodily food is changed into us, but our spiritual food changes us into it. — Meister Eckhart

In my gap year between college and drama school, I taught art at a hospice and worked at a little coffee shop across the street from Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London when everything around it was still a construction zone. — Juliet Rylance

I love Jim and Pam at 'The Office.' — David Walton

What a lovely display of personhood. He's like a good book cover that grabs your gaze. Read me. I'm fun but smart. You won't be able to put me down. — Laini Taylor

I think that the media is as divided on this issue [of gay marriage] as the Obama family - which is to say not at all. And so he's never going to get negative coverage for this ... When you have almost the entire media establishment on your side on an issue in a presidential campaign, it's very hard to lose politically. — Mark Halperin

When you're around your family, and you have that history and that shared language, you say things you'd be embarrassed to hear quoted back to you later. — Noah Baumbach