500 Dias Quotes & Sayings

Hold back the edges of your gown, Ladies, we are going through hell. — William Carlos Williams

Every week or so, a gay kid somewhere jumps off a bridge or slashes his wrists. I am told that a boy near here hanged himself because his father could not accept who he was. On television, I listen to the things they say, the right-wingers, and fundamentalists, and all the people who consolidate their power by hurting other people. I want to cover up the ears of kids and say, "Do not take it in." I took it in. I really did. I heard everything that people in the world around me said about who I was. It hurt me, but I thought I had no right to say anything because I was wrong. I didn't know what silence would cost, how it would change my life. It takes a long time to outrun the things that the world drills into you. Our — George Hodgman

Kitsch is all that the modern world makes that's not modern, which is most of it. — Mike Curran

Child of the kindly West, I have come to know, if more of us valued your ways - food and cheer above hoarded gold - it would be a merrier world. But sad or merry, I must leave it now. Farewell. — J.R.R. Tolkien

I auditioned for 'West Side Story' and got the part of Tony, but wasn't allowed to do it. They needed me to play trumpet. But I was glad, in the end, because I learned a lot about playing that score. — Stephen Costello

Growing up I had lots of role models. Looking back, my parents were my first role models. — Kumar Sangakkara

When it's better for everyone, it's better for everyone. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Drama if I sing, drama if I don't sing. What do you do? — Montserrat Caballe

Kate sat at her desk. Grendel sprawled by her feet, an enormous black monstrosity that had more in common with the hound of the Baskervilles than with any poodle I had ever seen. — Ilona Andrews

Never realized how much you might have been hurt, or worried ... you know. Others. Until I found out how fucking painful it is to fear losing you.'
'I never wanted anybody else after I'd found you. After I understood what it is we have. Didn't want any other man. — Aleksandr Voinov

He does as he pleases and no more. He's the most successful man I know. — Nora Roberts

About f-f-ace!" she said to the horse, flailing with her boots. "Into the barn, please. It's time for some tasty hay! Haaaaaaay! — Peter Lerangis

I'm a believer that there are three fundamental ways that you can think about education. They're being a professor upfront, lecturing, telling what's inside your head, some case studies in which you are in discussion and also an action based learning. — Robert J. Dolan

The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise. — Erica Jong

Do you know, every time I've seen you you've been like the Grim Reaper of goodwill and cheer. You should find another profession. — Lora Leigh