Benighting Quotes & Sayings

I was a huge fan of 'Avenue Q' long before I ever dreamed of being a part of it. I saw it off-Broadway at the Vineyard and waited at the stage door for autographs! — Rob McClure

I just look at things and figure out how they work. Once you know how something works, you can figure out how to fix it." She — Marissa Meyer

It's a drag having to wear socks during matches, because the tan, like, stops at the ankles. I can never get my skin, like, color coordinated. — Monica Seles

Our civilization is still in a middle stage, scarcely beast, in that it is no longer wholly guided by instinct; scarcely human, in that it is not yet wholly guided by reason. — Theodore Dreiser

The word absurdity is coming to life under my pen; a little while ago, in the garden, I couldn't find it,
but neither was I looking for it, I didn't need it: I thought without words, on things, with things.
Absurdity was not an idea in my head, or the sound of a voice, only this long serpent dead at my feet,
this wooden serpent. Serpent or claw or root or vulture's talon, what difference does it make. And
without formulating anything clearly, I understood that I had found the key to Existence, the key to my
Nauseas, to my own life. In fact, all that I could grasp beyond that returns to this fundamental
absurdity. — Jean-Paul Sartre

Hate's a growing thing like anything else. It's the inevitable outcome of forcing ideas onto life, of forcing one's deepest instincts; our deepest feelings we force according to certain ideas. — D.H. Lawrence

The big advantage of a book is that it's very easy to rewind. Close it and you're right back at the beginning. — Jerry Seinfeld

When we deny what comes through us, it defines us. When we honestly face what comes through us, then who we are grows. — Mark Nepo

I have seen sights and travelled in countries you cannot imagine. I have been afraid and I have been in danger, and I have never for one moment thought that I would throw myself at at a man for his help. — Philippa Gregory

She knew that she could not have reached this white serenity except as the sum of all the colors, of all the violence she had known. — Ayn Rand

I was no longer looking for a good dude, because they all turned out the same. — Shvonne Latrice

Look in the mirror and stare at your eyes and say, "I can and will be successful." — Robert Cheeke

Every lineament of the girl's wasted body is a testament to her inner turmoil. Willow can only imagine what kind of pain she must be in to destroy herself that way. She knows there's something ironic in her compassion for the other girl, but she can't help feeling that this utter mortification of the flesh is far worse than anything that she herself has done. — Julia Hoban

The problems of the world are not going to be engaged with and solved in Faversham, they're going to be sorted out in cities like Birmingham. — Jim Crace