Alterable Crossword Quotes & Sayings

NOTORIETY, n. The fame of one's competitor for public honors. The kind of renown most accessible and acceptable to mediocrity. A Jacob's-ladder leading to the vaudeville stage, with angels ascending and descending. — Ambrose Bierce

So that's it?" I asked when I could manage it. "We're going to abide by an ancient, narrow-minded agreement made almost a thousand years ago. Case closed. — Deborah Harkness

No man is more cheated than the selfish man. — Henry Ward Beecher

Today I feel more betrayed than perhaps ever before, that someone who had got to know my children, my staff and me, whom I let into my heart and told the truth, could then sacrifice the trust I placed in him and produce this terrible and unfair program. — Michael Jackson

Man is a carnivorous production, And must have meals, at least one meal a day; He cannot live, like woodcocks, upon suction, But, like the shark and tiger, must have prey; Although his anatomical construction Bears vegetables, in a grumbling way, Your laboring people think beyond all question, Beef, veal, and mutton better for digestion. — Lord Byron

Cancer affects so many people, and even if it hasn't affected someone in your family then you know someone who has had it. — Mollie King

His eyes rolled in their sockets like a panicked horse's. — Richard K. Morgan

Facing sexism and racism and classism and transphobia, there are ways to choose to act in those situations, and there shouldn't be a prescriptive list of things that you have to say. — Kathleen Hanna

Like a weighted diver sinking in an ocean
of mediocrity, under the pressure of men with
gelatin eyes, rubber voices, spiral-shaped
convictions, non-committal souls and non-committing
hands ... — Ayn Rand

Careful, Sofia," said Don Lorenzo.

"Don't teach a sailor to shit in the ocean," she muttered. — Scott Lynch