Alarmin Quotes & Sayings

No more tears now; I will think about revenge. — Mary, Queen Of Scots

Jean Railla puts it even more bluntly: Workplaces are still very sexist
it's hard to be a woman in the workplace. — Emily Matchar

The Internet was a wonderful invention. It was a computer network which people used to remind other people that they were awful pieces of shit. — Jarett Kobek

Hell was not for the living, it was for the dead, even the hallowed dead. Let the dead rest in peace. Someday Mack Bolan, too, would rest. For now, he had to find his way among the living. — Don Pendleton

Sometimes if you jump into something too quickly, you can screw up something that might have been good two years down the road. — Dolly Parton

There are not a lot of places for an actor to explore what it's like to be a woman in her 60s. There aren't any films about it and there very few TV series about it. — Sally Field

The probable accumulation of the surpluses of revenue beyond what can be applied to the payment of the public debt ... merits the consideration of Congress. Shall it lie unproductive in the public vaults? ... Or shall it rather be appropriated to the improvements of roads, canals, rivers, education, and other great foundations of prosperity and union — Thomas Jefferson

Now everybody's got a video camera, so go make videos with your friends or see if you can get a part in a film school thing that's being done. — Joshua Malina

I don't think I'm a total pessimist, so I think you can find hope in all my films. — Spike Lee

Jean Louise interrupted. Hester, let me ask you something. I've been home since Saturday now, and since Saturday I've heard a great deal of talk about mongrelizin' the race, and it's led me to wonder if that's not rather an unfortunate phrase, and if probably it should be discarded from Southern jargon these days. It takes two races to mongrelize a race - if that's the right word - and when we white people holler about mongrelizin', isn't that something of a reflection on ourselves as a race? The message I get from it is that if it were lawful, there'd be a wholesale rush to marry Negroes. If I were a scholar, which I ain't, I would say that kind of talk has a deep psychological significance that's not particularly flattering to the one who talks it. At its best, it denotes an alarmin' mistrust of one's own race. — Harper Lee

Martin Wilson's What They Always Tell Us hears the voices of the young as they struggle toward adulthood ... — Richard Peck