Quotes & Sayings About Backbiter Friends

There's no doubt that I do have extremes of mood that are greater than just about anybody else I know. — Stephen Fry

Christmas is a season of such infinite labour, as well as expense in the shopping and present-making line, that almost every woman I know is good for nothing in purse and person for a month afterwards, done up physically, and broken down financially. — Fanny Kemble

Did you take Joyce's engine?'
'My instructions were to disable the car, but one of the men bet Hal a burger he couldn't get the engine out. So Hal removed the engine. — Janet Evanovich

There is so much fragility in kissing, in other people: It is all glass. — Lauren Oliver

In college, I was always disappointed by lectures that covered social problems but failed to identify what I could do to change them. Part of the problem was that many professors simply didn't believe they had a role in converting awareness to action. — Ben Rattray

Models are there to look like mannequins, not like real people. Art and illusion are supposed to be fantasy. — Grace Jones

The more connected that individual is to an issue they care about, the higher probability there is they will stay involved over a longer period of time. — Chris Hughes

Anything that is not autobiography is plagiarism. — Pedro Almodovar

It was just me in my basement honing my skills, hearing songs on the radio and trying to manipulate them and then writing over those, and I started with local artists in Boston, writing records for them. — Clinton Sparks

The fetish of the great university, of expensive colleges for young women, is too often simply a fetish. It is not based on a genuine desire for learning. Education today need not be sought at any great distance. It is largely compounded of two things, of a certain snobbishness on the part of parents, and of escape from home on the part of youth. And to those who must earn quickly it is often sheer waste of time. Very few colleges prepare their students for any special work. — Mary Roberts Rinehart

I mean, it's very subtle and a little embarrassing to me, but I really believe there are things which nobody would see unless I photographed them. — Diane Arbus

Here lies the basic flaw of all doubt. It can never really be satisfied. No evidence is ever fully, finally enough. Doubt wants always to consume, never to consummate. It clamors endlessly for an answer and so drowns out any answer that might be given it. — Mark Buchanan