230th Engineer Quotes & Sayings

And then there is the sex, which is worse than he had imagined: he had forgottent just how painful it was, how debasing, how repulsive, how much he disliked it. He hates the postures, the positions it demands, each of them degrading because they leave him so helpless and weak; he hate the taste of it and the smells of it. But mostly, he hates the sounds of it: the meaty smack of flesh hitting flesh, the wounded-animal moans and grunts, the things said to him that were perhaps meant to be arousing but he can only interpret as diminishing. — Hanya Yanagihara

I was born free. — W.E.B. Du Bois

In the women's movement, women needed men to stand up and say, 'This isn't right.' In the civil rights of the '60s, it took people of all color to demand equal rights. — Pauley Perrette

A very great Iliad ... concerns the creation of a nation. — Raymond Queneau

He will perceive that there are far more excellent qualities in the student than preciseness and infallibility; that a guess is often more fruitful than an indisputable affirmation, and that a dream may let us deeper into the secret of nature than a hundred concerted experiments — Ralph Waldo Emerson

As I was writing, I realised I wasn't sufficiently extrovert to gather enough interesting souls with tall tales around me. I was no Louis Theroux. But neither was I interested in exploring my inner life in public, in the manner of a Jonathan Raban. — Clive Sinclair

Practice is practice, chicken is chicken. — Moon Jong-up

I'd like to write some songs that are so good that nobody understands them. Not even myself. — Townes Van Zandt

My father was a psychiatrist and a social worker but he was a very talented painter and musician and writer on the side. — Tunde Adebimpe