Andrist Obituary Quotes & Sayings

There is a greater strength than wealth, and it is greater because it cannot be taken away. Our strength, the strength of the proletariat, is in our muscles, in our hands to cast ballots, in our fingers to pull triggers. This strength we cannot be stripped of. It is the primitive strength, it is the strength that is to life germane, it is the strength that is stronger than wealth, and that wealth cannot take away. "But your strength is detachable. It can be taken away from you. Even now the Plutocracy is taking it away from you. In the end it will take it all away from you. And then you will cease to be the middle class. You will descend to us. You will become proletarians. And the beauty of it is that you will then add to our strength. We will hail you brothers, and we will fight shoulder to shoulder in the cause of humanity. "You — Jack London

Christianity is a faith in which God sent his Son to die for you. — John Ashcroft

You can imagine anything to be fun in retrospect- look at all those people who long for high school. — Jennifer Close

I allude to Back to the Future in the 1985 story to let folks know it was an inspiration and because it literally was the most time-travelly bit of pop culture we had in the mid 80's. I can talk about their tools for considering change. First, the book is metafictive in a traditional sense where I'm showing and telling the reader that the act of writing and reading is a reflexive way to push boundaries of real and literal time travel. Writers and readers are time travellers. The question is what we do with that time we traveled when we leave a book, leave a page. — Kiese Laymon

All my life, I have been working with children whose lives were destroyed because their mothers hated them.
1981 re: cause of autism — Bruno Bettelheim

And indeed this idea is sometimes treated with derision, for how can a man shake off his habits? What can become of him if he is in such bondage to the habit of satisfying innumerable desires that he has created for himself? — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

You just gotta be yourself. Like be yourself and if it works out for you, grind hard. Don't get lost in it. And have fun. — Kirko Bangz

She always answered the questions in a vague fashion, partly because she didn't want to discuss the matter, and partly because she didn't know exactly how she did feel. Only that she had known, always, that life would be like this, because this was how it was for every British India family, and the children absorbed and accepted the fact that, from an early age, long separations and partings would, eventually, be inevitable. — Rosamunde Pilcher

If you want to know why some kids can wait and others can't, then you've got to think like they think, — Walter Mischel

Exploding Head Syndrome: A type of Hypnagogic Auditory Hallucination - a rare and relatively undocumented parasomnia event in which the subject experiences loud crashes, bangs, doors slamming, even gunshots at the onset of sleep or within an hour — June Matthews

I have been able to hope for the best, expect the worst, and take what comes along. If there has been one fundamental reason for my success, this is it. — Gene Sarazen

Oh shit. Shit taking a shit on a shit. — Cora Carmack

As a leader he was much too serious by half, a trait she'd seen diminish even the best leaders' abilities. — K.F. Breene

When you're writing a sketch, it has to be surrounded by a situation. It can't just be out of the air. — Leslie Jones