Buzznet Quotes & Sayings

All tamed animals are nervous, we have given them reason to be, not only by cruelty but by our love too, that presses upon them. They have not been able to be entirely indifferent to this and untouched by it. — Stevie Smith

America washes its dirty linen in public. When scandals such as this one hit, they do sully America's image in the world. But what usually also gets broadcast around the world is the vivid reality that the United States forces accountability and punishes wrongdoing, even at the highest levels. — Fareed Zakaria

I hate big models. — Imogen Cunningham

I wish someone had told me this simple but confusing truth: Even when everything's going your way you can still be sad. Or anxious. Or uncomfortably numb. Because you can't always control your brain or your emotions even when things are perfect. — Jenny Lawson

I came from dinner, went downtown with my friends, the elevator was down, I ran down the hall toward my room at 10 at night, having had two glasses of wine. — Jill Clayburgh

In the digital age, we filter forward instead of filtering out. As a result, all that material is still available to us and to others to filter in their own ways, and to bring forward in other contexts. — David Weinberger

...recogniz[ing] the dangerous influence the unknown naturally has on everyone." P.60 — Mark Z. Danielewski

An acute first-class brain is the finest asset anyone can have- and, if we want to be happy, it is an asset we must exploit to the uttermost. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Some believe lily of the valley brings a return of happiness. — Vanessa Diffenbaugh

People have struggled for the benefits of others, you can struggle at least for your own benefit. — Amit Kalantri

Of course real horror does not depend upon the melodrama of shadows or even the conspiracies of night. — Mark Z. Danielewski

If I didn't want to destroy Stacks before, then I did now. I hated him for what he did and how he treated me. — Lucinda John

(The processes are) doubly ruinous: they impoverish the earth by hastily removing, for the benefit of a few generations, the common resources which, once expended and dissipated, can never be restored; and second, in its technique, its habits, its processes, the paleotechnic period is equally inimical to the earth considered as a human habitat, by its destruction of the beauty of the landscape, its ruining of streams, its pollution of drinking water, its filling the air with a finely divided carboniferous deposit, which chokes both life and vegetation. — Lewis Mumford