Banana Grabber Quotes & Sayings

What is time to a water rat? What is time to the river? Only we humans obsess over days and minutes, hours and seasons. — Matt Goldman

There were things that Pumpkin Head - now not Pumpkin Head anymore - had to do to be a girl. He had to be careful how he dressed, and how he acted. He had to be careful how he talked, and he always had to be calm. He was very frightened of what would happen if he didn't stay calm. For his face was really just a wonderful plastic one. The real Pumpkin Head was still inside, locked in, waiting to come out. — Al Sarrantonio

Big money, big Liberal Party politics and big media are trying to get rid of us, of course, by letting Packer take over Fairfax - a media-only company. But we're hanging in there and doing the best job we can for our readers while we can. — Margo Kingston

The madness of youth had made me unafraid. — Lauren DeStefano

I was off to Yale to be a lesbian — Judith Butler

If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me. — William Shakespeare

Green roofs, roadside plantings, porous pavement, and sidewalk gardens have been proven to reduce flooding. They absorb rainwater before it swamps the streets and sewage systems. — Frances Beinecke

I prefer short stories, but publishers would, of course, rather that writers produce novels, since novels are still more commercially viable. — Charles Baxter

People are always worried about what's happening next. They often find it difficult to stand still, to occupy the now without worrying about the future. People are generally not satisfied with what they have; they are very concerned with what they are going to have. — Garth Stein

Any successful long-term strategy will require that the green wave fully and passionately embrace the principles of eco-equity. — Van Jones

My desk is like a 'U,' so I have my computer and lots of dictionaries because I write in Spanish and I live in English. — Isabel Allende

At the demonstration of sixty feminists against the Miss America Pageant in 1968, when the women filled a trash can with bras, girdles, curlers and spike-heeled shoes, the bra-burning myth was launched by the media and, in spite of its inaccuracy and spiteful intent, put radical feminism on the map. — Hilda Scott

You humans are so fragile. One minute you're fine, the next minute you're gone forever. — Susan Ee

Around 1977 I became very ... negative, I began to do things unconsciously that I didn't understand, and they were very sabotagistic and I didn't know what I was doing. I was pissing everybody off, I was breaking my bridges. I was hostile to people, I was doing performances and insulting people there - I was doing whatever I could to destroy whatever world I had created ten years before, without knowing, really, why — Charlemagne Palestine

There are two side to every issue. — Ayn Rand