Brownmillers Against Our Will Quotes & Sayings

E. A. Poe defines a short story as readable in a single sitting. I imagine a "single sitting" was longer back in his day. But I digress again. — Gabrielle Zevin

Sometimes books imitate life. And sometimes books imitate lives that imitate books. — Andrew Smith

I do not know that I should be fond of preaching often; now and then, perhaps, once or twice in the spring, after being anxiously expected for half-a-dozen Sundays together; but not for a constancy; it would not do for a constancy. — Jane Austen

I'm beginning to think we're attending the most cray-cray high school in North America. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

When the human race has once acquired a superstition, nothing short of death is ever likely to remove it. — Mark Twain

Washington bureaucrats have classified the very air we exhale as a pollutant and have gone unchallenged in this incredible assertion. The logical consequence is that there will come a time when we will have to buy a government permit just to emit carbon dioxide into the atmosphere from our own lungs! — Ron Paul

I never built houses, only apartments. — Harry Triguboff

Whether there were organized orders of builders in the early times no one can tell, through there may have been. No matter; man mixed thought and worship with his work, and as he cut his altar stones and fitted them together he thought out a faith by which to live. — Joseph Fort Newton

Listen, I don't care if you're Voldemort under that thing. We don't sell livestock. Period. — Allison Pang

Because of the changes in the Padres team I played with last year, I felt like a veteran recently when I worked out with Jason Kendall and he told me he's liked listening to my records since he was a kid! — Garth Brooks

The physical world is the only salvation from a mind constantly churning away at itself. — Gary Shteyngart

The Blood of Heroes is surely the best account to date, one that presents plenty of new insights while acting as a corrective-or at least an alternative viewpoint-to previous accounts ... Donovan combines that vital blend of authoritative scholarship with the vivid writing necessary to make an oft-told tale seem fresh. — William C. Davis

The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity. — Carl Clinton Van Doren

My own lov'd light,
That very soft and solemn spirit worships,
That lovers love so well
strange joy is thine,
Whose influence o'er all tides of soul hath power,
Who lend'st thy light to rapture and despair;
The glow of hope and wan hue of sick fancy
Alike reflect thy rays: alike thou lightest
The path of meeting or of parting love
Alike on mingling or on breaking hearts
Thou smil'st in throned beauty! — Charles Robert Maturin