Black Codes During Reconstruction Quotes & Sayings

I make a pussy purr with the stroke of my hand. — Ted Nugent

Art is the proper task of life. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The Stasi had developed a quasi-scientific method, 'smell sampling', as a way to find criminals. The theory was that we all have our own identifying odour, which we leave on everything we touch. These smells can be captured and, with the help of trained sniffer dogs, compared to find a match. The Stasi would take its dogs and jars to a location where they suspected an illegal meeting had occurred, and see if the dogs could pick up the scents of the people whose essences were captured in the jars. — Anna Funder

Audience participation can often inject a dose of adrenalin into your average dial-tone literary reading, especially if a handful of audience-members are mentally unhinged, and let's face it - you can always depend on at least one crackpot at these things. — Lynn Coady

I don't love any of my old boyfriends anymore. I'm not sure I ever did, and I'm not sure if at the time I thought I was sure. My mother says that's normal, that men are proud of every one of their conquests, and women wish they could forget it all. She says that's an essential gender difference, and I can't say I disprove her theory. What keeps me from full revulsion, from wanting the sexual equivalent of an annulment, is thinking about what I got from each one that I still hold on to now. — Lena Dunham

If survival calls for the bearing of arms, bear them you must. But the most important part of the challenge is for you to find another means that does not come with the killing of your fellow man. — Rod Serling

Ugh! Why can't Hell stay where it's at? Why does it always have to break loose? — Jamie McGuire

It's like a badge of honour if you're a British actor and you get the 'Harry Potter' call. It meant a lot to me. — Rhys Ifans

Impossibility is a dictionary word. — Sri Chinmoy

I don't think I ever take huge risks, though I'm not scared of doing so. — Kevin Costner

Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on. — Christian Nestell Bovee