4chan Lit Quotes & Sayings

To reach perfection, we must all pass, one by one, through the death of self-effacement. — Dag Hammarskjold

Their virtues lived in their children. The family changed its persons but not its manners, and they continued a blessing to the world from generation to generation. — Sarah Fielding

The entire second-period sophomore girls' PE class thought my balls were uniquely and supremely beneath contempt. Great. — Frank Portman

I think that America will not trust a party to defend America that isn't willing to defend itself. — James Carville

We're not a homogeneous party, anymore than the Republicans are. But we are a party that I think has a plan to take us forward. — Antonio Villaraigosa

Day after day she asked Papa with quivering lip: "Mayn't I get up and go down stairs this morning?" And — Susan Coolidge

To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people, that he could not understand why no one was as disturbed as he by the clicking of her heels on the paving stones, why no one else's heart was wild with the breeze stirred by the sighs of her veils, why everyone did not go mad with the movements of her braid, the flight of her hands, the gold of her laughter. He had not missed a single one of her gestures, not one of the indications of her character, but he did not dare approach her for fear of destroying the spell. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Everybody should take each other as they are, white, black, Indians, Creole. Then there would be no prejudice, nations would get along. — Langston Hughes

A political prisoner is someone who is out fighting for his or her people's rights and freedom and is imprisoned for that alone. — Leonard Peltier

Everything is acting. — Marilyn Manson

It is helpful for a woman artist not to have a husband. — Jeanette Winterson

Someone will always be looking at you as an example of how to behave. Don't let him down. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

The daydreamy hypothetical that floats through the mind, opening the door to the imagination where everything and anything is possible.

- Story, Robert McKee — Audrey Godwin

I don't think schooling of any sort really prepares you for real life. I don't know if art school would have prepared me to draw comics. Half of the people I know in comics went to art school, half of them didn't. Some of them went and dropped out. — Dave Gibbons

You know what speed is. You would not believe a man who claimed to walk at 5 miles an hour, but took 3 hours to walk 6 miles. You have only to apply the same common sense to stones rolling down hillsides, and the calculus is at your command. — W.W. Sawyer