Bitking Quotes & Sayings

They were people turned to fuel for the American machine. Enslavement was not destined to end, and it is wrong to claim our present — Ta-Nehisi Coates

Bad stuff happens sometimes and it happens to people we care about. You can't live life insulated because you are scared of getting too close. — Jay Crownover

Do not think it wasted time to submit yourself to any influence that will bring upon you any noble feeling. — John Ruskin

I'd like to say I'm not dressed up for anyone in particular, but that would be a lie. — Lisa Daily

I have just been through the process of killing a cistudo for the sake of science; but I cannot excuse myself for this murder, and see that such actions are inconsistent with the poetic perception, however they may serve science, and will affect the quality of my observations. I pray that I may walk more innocently and serenely through nature. No reasoning whatever reconciles me to this act. It affects my day injuriously. I have lost some self-respect. I have a murderer's experience to a degree. — Henry David Thoreau

She said that cats were more attached to places than to people. And that was why cats are often found in abandoned houses. — Kyung-Sook Shin

Candid, adj.
"Most times, when I'm having sex, I'd rather be reading."
This was, I admit, a strange thing to say on a second date.
I guess I was just giving you a warning.
"Most times when I'm reading," you said, "I'd rather be having sex". — David Levithan

You can't keep pursuing pop success, and chasing the past. — Marc Almond

She was tremendously fond of Ralph. Not hounded by love the way some women were. With Crighton she had been teased endlessly by the idea of it, but with Ralph it was more straightforward. Again not love, more like the feelings you would have for a favorite dog (and, no, she would never have said such a thing to him. Some people, a lot of people, didn't understand how attached one could be to a dog.) — Kate Atkinson

Wow. Getting sassy, aren't you?" "I am, aren't I?" I asked in amazement. "I didn't know I knew how to do that. — Erin McCarthy

I am holed up in a small village where I am doing my own work and it feels great. I have a small gallery and not many people find me, but I am happy being left alone and doing what I love. — Catherine Stock

Now everyone has a license to speak, it's a question of who gets heard. — Aaron Swartz

Of course I will look at anything, but I have not got the time or the patience to keep on looking at art that I know could be better. I don't want art that needs fixing, I want art that sends me back to the studio to fix my own. — Walter Darby Bannard