Avulse Quotes & Sayings

Only in America - the land of the free - can an innocent person be forced to plead the Fifth for exercising their First Amendment rights. Say what you want, but you better shut your fucking pie hole if it offends someone's delicate sensibilities. — Kendall Grey

When superstars go down, no matter how sympathetic the circumstances, fans know the franchise could be sunk. — Stephen Rodrick

I believe in the discipline of mastering the best that other people have ever figured out. I don't believe in just sitting down and trying to dream it all up yourself. Nobody's that smart. — Charlie Munger

If things are easy for us, then they are not lessons, but things we already know. — Louise Hay

You should win an award or something for most compassionate student. No, wait. I mean the most self-centered dipshit award." Her — Samantha Young

A dash derives from "to dash," to shatter, strike violently, to throw suddenly or violently, hence to throw carelessly in or on, hence to write carelessly or suddenly, to add or insert suddenly or carelessly to or in the page. "To dash" comes from Middle English daschen, itself probably from Scandinavian-compare Danish daske, to beat, to strike. Ultimately the word is-rather obviously-echoic. — Eric Partridge

Pursuit of God, passion for life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

In silence one can receive more because all one's activities become concentrated at one point. There is only one real rhythm; in silence you hear it. When you live to the rhythm of this silence, you become it, slowly; everything you do, you do to it. — Mother Meera

The time has now come for the nation to turn a new page in Australia's history by righting the wrongs of the past and so moving forward with confidence to the future. We apologise for the laws and policies of successive parliaments and governments that have inflicted profound grief, suffering and loss on these our fellow Australians ... — Kevin Rudd

Disgust with injustice may sharpen the desire for justice. Readers who don't see this connection merely wish to be entertained, and I have neither skill nor desire to turn the agony of a people into entertainment. — Ayi Kwei Armah

'Six Feet Under' was so much about life. Sure, it had a lot to do with death, but that's the fun - that now I became a dead person. — Frances Conroy

Don't let anyone bring you back to earth, keep shooting for the stars. — David J. Delaney

Children have two visions, the inner and the outer. Of the two the inner vision is brighter. — Sylvia Ashton-Warner

I've always felt that good writing does not have to be literary. — Sara Sheridan