Bootblacks Job Quotes & Sayings

My mistake was assuming that when I got to college, people would not be such assholes. — Jennifer Echols

To say that a man is made up of certain chemical elements is a satisfactory description only for those who intend to use him as a fertilizer. — Hermann Joseph Muller

Every song asks to be sung in a different way. — Ray Lamontagne

I always write the pieces I want to write. — Harrison Birtwistle

When people say "What do you want people to get from this movie?" I say, "Well, it depends on what they bring to it." I don't try to decide what people should get from it or why. I don't do a part for those kinds of reasons. — Denzel Washington

The word 'free-lance', I used to think, had a romantic ring; but sadly discovered, when I tried to be one, that its practice has little freedom, and the lance is a sorry weapon to tilt at literary windmills. — Colin MacInnes

I tell ya, sex is getting harder all the time. Me and my wife were trying to have sex for hours last night and I finally gave up. I asked her, "what, you can't think of anybody either?" — Rodney Dangerfield

What young man had ever paraded about that way, without a reason, a maiden in her flower? And — Henry James

You start out wanting to change the world through language, and end up thinking it's enough to tell a few good jokes. — David Nicholls

Servants ran to wake the young king, Tamar, already awake and watching from his balcony. Curious, naturally. Not altogether pleased. No more than anyone would be, jolted out of a sound sleep by unexpected elephants. — Lloyd Alexander

I read a lot, searching for answers in someone else's words. — M. Sophie Schneider

The main reason why Western civilization lacks Spirituality, or an awareness of our interconnectedness with one another and the universe, according to Gandhi, is that it has given priority to economic and technological development over human and community development. — Grace Lee Boggs

You know, I was chubby when I was a little girl. And I have all those issues everyone else has. But I try not to. And I've learned over the years that it's such a waste of time. And people like me whether I'm a little bit fatter or not. — Gwen Stefani