Bastardize Define Quotes & Sayings

Who among us is so certain of our identity? Who hasn't been asked, 'What's your background?' and hesitated, even for a split second, to answer their inquisitor. Howard Jacobson's 'The Finkler Question' forces us to ask that of ourselves, and that's why it's a must read, no matter what your background. — David Sax

Fate could twist you around and around if you weren't careful. Just when you thought you knew where you were headed, you'd wind up in the opposite direction, or flattened against a wall. — Alice Hoffman

What city has given the world more in terms of American culture than New Orleans? There is none. Not New York. Not L.A. Not Chicago. Not anywhere, in the sense that African American music has gone around the world twenty times over, and it's continuing to evolve. It is our greatest cultural export. — David Simon

He was foolish enough to fall completely in love with someone who didn't think he had a heart. — H.M. Ward

NIGHTINGALE The nightingale does not make his nest in a cage lest slavery be the lot of its chicks. BW-ST-122 — Kahlil Gibran

The youth are the catalysts for real change. — Queen Rania Of Jordan

Good storytelling is humanity's great connector, and it just might keep the world from eating itself. — James Genn

I had never taken creative writing classes. Hadn't even considered it. — Charles Frazier

Like many others, I'm deeply sympathetic to the huge numbers of people looking to come here today to escape suffering and poverty in their own lands. But as a country, we cannot afford to have a total open-door policy without any restrictions on entry. — Ed Koch

For me, I always think of the image of sweeping out my footprints as I walk through a scene. — Lenny Abrahamson

I don't think being an athlete is unfeminine. I think of it as a kind of grace. — Jackie Joyner-Kersee

They fled. The American louts fled. Indeed, concerning the fighting waged by the heroes of the Arab Socialist Baath Party yesterday, one amazing thing really is the cowardice of the American soldiers. we had not anticipated this. — Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf