Aesthetically Pretentious Crossword Quotes & Sayings

I'm glad to take on the role of a domestic because many of your black leaders, your educators, your professionals came from domestic parents who made sacrifices to see that their children didn't go through what they did. — Esther Rolle

We are made of awkward. — Maria Dahvana Headley

The poor have much to teach you. You have much to learn from them. — St. Vincent

The curve of man's knowledge of himself ascends until the 17th century, declines gradually afterwards, in this century it finally plummets — Nicolas Gomez Davila

Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are. — Quentin Crisp

To be enlightened is to be aware, always, of total reality in its immanent otherness - to be aware of it and yet remain in a condition to survive as an animal. Our goal is to discover that we have always been where we ought to be. Unhappily we make the task exceedingly difficult for ourselves. — Aldous Huxley

It is, and has been, and will forever be, this world of ours, a fucking joke. — Bill Hicks

The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. — Colin Powell

Cheat? Good heavens, this is an amateur cricket match amongst leading prep schools, I'm an Englishman and a schoolmaster supposedly setting an example to his young charges. We are playing the most artistic and beautiful game ever devised. Of course I'll cunting well cheat. Now, give me my robe and put on my crown. I have immortal longings in me. — Stephen Fry

In my case, I was covering politics in Texas as a newspaper man in the 1960's. — Jim Lehrer

Most of the tools from medieval times were extensions of the physical self. Tools are now extensions of the mental self. — Lotoya Peterson

UNUSED LYRIC I've never been to Eden But it's nice I hear tell When I die I'll go to heaven 'Cause I've done my time in hell — Nikki Sixx

I am born with WINGS, that is my DESTINY'..
says the butterfly..
'Just let me come into my own'... — Abha Maryada Banerjee

Mabel stops looking murderous and assumes an expression of severe truculence. How the hell, I imagine her thinking, am I supposed to catch things with this idiot in tow? — Helen Macdonald