Bumdom Quotes & Sayings

Wakeful they lie. — Robert Graves

To be rapable, a position that is social not biological, defines what a woman is. — Catharine A. MacKinnon

Let no one persuade you of a single thing. Study your hunger and how to feed it. Trust in whatever sounds twist your viscera. Write in the cadences of first love, of second chances, of air raids, of outrage, of the hideous and the hilarious, of headlong acceptance or curt refusal. Make the bitter music of bumdom, the sad shanties of landlessness, cool at the equator and fluid at the pole. Set the sounds that angels make after an all-night orgy. Whatever lengthens the day, whatever gets you through the night. Make the music that you need, for need will be over, soon enough. Let your progressions predict time's end and recollect the dead as if they're all still her. Because they are. — Richard Powers

But it certainly is a wonderful thing to wake up suddenly in the solitude of the woods and look up at the sky and see the utter nonsense of everything including all the solemn stuff given out by professional asses about the spiritual life; and simply to burst out laughing, and laugh and laugh, with the sky and the trees because God is not in words, and not in systems, and not in liturgical movements, and not in "contemplation" with a big "C," or in asceticism or in anything like that, not even in the apostolate. — Thomas Merton

How is it possible, that I'm this close to you and it's killing me that you're still so far away? — Tahereh Mafi

your excuses are so lame they're limping, — Nora Roberts

I always lose the election in the polls, and I always win it on election day. — Benjamin Netanyahu

It was colorful and elaborate - Kayla's website, not the puke — Robin Brande

I don't believe anybody can really grasp everything that's even in one textbook. — Joshua Lederberg

Holy Christ fate's got a fucking sick sense of humor " he chuckled. — Deb Caletti

And a diplomatist is one who lets the other fellow think he's getting his way, while all the time he's having his own. It never does any special harm to let people have their way with their mouths. — George Horace Lorimer