Beatnik Slang Quotes & Sayings

Who needs a stupid grampa-loving, book-reading, good-smelling boy who I like to talk to? — Cecil Castellucci

I think that most actors don't have very good opinions of themselves. — Charlotte Rampling

What kind of person doesn't let you have gummi bears? — Libba Bray

Reading will help you to discover your sacred-self — Lailah Gifty Akita

I feel I've made the transition from model to actress, but I'm not that secure about it. Lauren Hutton, Jennifer O'Neill - we all know that a few films don't mean all that much. — Maud Adams

I love race car drivers, I love gymnastics, I love UFC, I love police officers, I love firefighters. I just try to give them the same enjoyment they give me. — Shaquille O'Neal

What do the Texans say? All hat, no cattle. — Alexander McCall Smith

The conception, composition, practice, and performance of a piece of music can blossom in a single moment. — Stephen Nachmanovitch

The Collectorship of Madna is the seventh post that he has held in eight years. He is quite philosophic about the law that governs the transfer of civil servants; he sees it as a sort of corollary to the law of karma, namely, that the whole of life passes through innumerable and fundamentally mystifying changes, and these changes are sought to be determined by our conduct, our deeds (otherwise, we would quite simply lose our marbles); only thus can we even pretend to satisfactorily explain the mystery of suffering, which is a subject that has troubled thoughtful souls all over the world since time immemorial. It is also a hypothesis that justifies the manifest social inequalities of the Hindu community. — Upamanyu Chatterjee

Dip him in the river who loves water. — William Blake

Drama often obscures the real issues — Jenny Holzer

You may see the emergence of a new political party from the body of the trade union movement which represents a very clear-cut socialist alternative policy and which gives expression to the views of the trade union movement in parliament. — Arthur Scargill