Carnivalesque Body Quotes & Sayings

The geat blessing of mankind are within us and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and like people in the dark, we fall foul upon the very thing we search for, without finding it. — Seneca.

An eye for an eye my friend. — Tsugumi Ohba

I love playing with the conventions of fantasy, and breaking rules, and crossing lines. — Lev Grossman

I think how pay gets determined is pretty broad - experience, how people look, what they bring to the job. But there's no question women are paid less. Women don't ask. — Dee Dee Myers

If you write literary fiction that's set partly in the future, you're apparently a sci-fi writer ... I think of it as being more of a story about what remains after we lose everything and the importance of art in our lives. — Emily St. John Mandel

A hound it was, an enormous coal-black hound, but not such a hound as mortal eyes have ever seen. — Arthur Conan Doyle

I don't want them to move their plants. I want them to stay in Michigan. I want them to stay in all of the places where they are, or expanding to other places. But I want it to be in the United States. I don't want them to go to Mexico. — Donald Trump

[Home Economics Textbook from 1950]: "Prepare yourself. Take fifteen minutes to rest so you'll look refreshed when hubby comes home from work. Touch up makeup and put a ribbon in your hair. He's just been with work-weary people. Be a little gay. His boring day needs a lift."
Mama Celia: "Get knee-walking drunk. You've earned it. You've been with four kids under the age of seven all day. Put a ribbon in your nose and try to pull it out of your mouth. You're wasted, after all. Announce you're gay. The look on his face will give you a lift. — Celia Rivenbark

When I need a little advice about Saddam Hussein, I turn to country music. — George H. W. Bush

With a little effort, she could get up by herself. — Paolo Giordano

My co-founder and great friend Glynnis MacNicol is only a chat box away and gives me the support (and tough love!) needed to remember who I am and what I'm worth. You can't be your own cheerleader all of the time. Be there to support your friends and let them support you. — Rachel Sklar

I'd been kind of a hiccup in my parents' lives. They lost track of me and I didn't know what I was going to do with myself. And then fate reached in and took me in its hands. I was discovered right out of high school and started getting work. — Sally Field

Fear makes even strong men do things they might never do otherwise, — Anonymous

Working away from my husband for long periods is good and bad. It stops us taking each other for granted and gives us space, but I miss him terribly. — Helen Mirren