Ashcan Art Quotes & Sayings

We are like people with short-term leases on summer cottages; we can never seem to make our provisions come out even with our stay. — Mignon McLaughlin

She encouraged herself to see her very small presence in the world as a good thing, a power, something that a hero might possess. — Helen Oyeyemi

I mean can you walk to school on your own? Can you study science? Can you study math? Can you go to a normal school? Do you need to go to a special school? What is going to become of you when you grow up? Are you going to have to live on social security and SSI? — Sheena Iyengar

Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it. — Christian Nestell Bovee

I was just a screw or cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else. — Edith Wharton

The semicolon is a much neglected beast — Randall McCutcheon

I don't want to be grotesque, but when you're 330 pounds, it's hard to wipe your ass. You know? — Mike Tyson