90s Alternative Quotes & Sayings

There's a sense of urgency that the president does not possess, that there is a 9/11 in the making. — Rand Paul

In my case, I belong to a group of aspiring and practicing biographers in Boston. We meet once a month for a coupla hours. It's become my lifeline - forgive the pun. — Nigel Hamilton

Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite
getting something down. — Julia Cameron

There is safety in the very heart of danger. — Vincent Van Gogh

I love everything from country to alternative to Blink-182 and '90s music to Dave Matthews. — Spencer Boldman

I knew long ago and rediscovered that the best way to attract attention,help,and conversation is to be lost.A man who seeing his mother starving to death on a path kicks her in the stomach to clear the way, will cheerfully devote several hours of his time giving wrong directions to a total stranger who claims to be lost — John Steinbeck

[Nabokov's] language is made visible ... like a veil or transparent curtain. You cannot help seeing the curtain as you peek into the intimate rooms behind. — Jerzy Kosinski

Give what name you like to my presentiments, but I am afraid that my happiness will be paid for by some horrible catastrophe. — Honore De Balzac

We all screw up. Everyone makes mistakes. That's what she did. It was bad judgment, that's all. You don't cut off the people you love for mistakes like that. — Richelle Mead

I don't really listen to a lot of 90s alternative indie female stuff anymore, but I loved Liz Phair and Kim Deal when I was younger. — Bethany Cosentino

How had he ever imagined that a petite frame was the key to feminine appeal? Miniatures might be compassed in a single glance. But such an abundance of perfection, long limbs and generous hips, nearly six feet of woman, made for an endless expanse of skin. Such a woman would demand hours to properly peruse. To taste. To penetrate. — Meredith Duran

The Governor's Mansion is a beautiful home, a beautiful building - we're privileged to have a chance to live there. It certainly doesn't feel as comfortable as our home. — Matt Blunt

What they [the 9/11 attackers] abominate about 'the west', to put it in a phrase, is not what western liberals don't like and can't defend about their own system, but what they do like about it and must defend: its emancipated women, its scientific inquiry, its separation of religion from the state. — Christopher Hitchens

Treat yourself as if you already are enough. Walk as if you are enough. Eat as if you are enough. See, look, listen as if you are enough. Because it's true. — Geneen Roth

Comedy clubs were something that came to pass in the '80s, but toward the end of that, in the early '90s, people started doing comedy again in alternative spaces. — Eugene Mirman

We grew up listening to alternative music from the '90s, and there was no shame in being on a major label and still making the music you wanted to make. I feel like rap rock came around and drew a line in the sand, and everybody that was like me ran away from that and started making indie-rock. — Nate Ruess

In the '90s, the radio was still alive with all different kinds of points of view, and I think that's why people are longing for that time. It was the first time that alternative music broke through to the mainstream. — Shirley Manson

That kind always has the public good as a motive to justify every abomination. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

People have had the idea to do a '90s alternative tour for a long time. I didn't come up with that; I was the first guy to basically say it was time. — Art Alexakis

She wanted to look presentable, but not like an overdressed outsider. — Eowyn Ivey

Things improved a little bit in the '80s; there was kind of a revival of alternative comics, but then they went downhill in the '90s. — Harvey Pekar

Around the mid-'90s every hair guy who would have been in a hair-metal band got his tattoos and suddenly decided he was alternative. It just became like a thing. — Billy Corgan

All the while schools and teachers have been working hard 'to fit' the Millennial generation into the orthodox classroom culture, ironically the Millennials are busy shaping the classroom culture to fit themselves. — Kavita Bhupta Ghosh