Clara Rockmore Quotes & Sayings

Now, see there. Just because I'm wearing my Super-Dike sweatshirt, you think I'm a lesbian. I guess if I were wearing a string of pearls, you'd think I was an oyster. — Florynce Kennedy

What people don't understand, they laugh at. — Geraldine McCaughrean

When I look back on what I did for the Left, I'm in a small way quite proud of some of it - I only wish I'd done more. — Christopher Hitchens

Twitter fascinates me because it's real. It feels kind of unreal, but it makes very real things happen. — Amanda Palmer

If you come at the record feeling really happy and optimistic, it can be incredibly beautiful and uplifting, and if you come at it in a bleak moment, it can feel like a very dark place to share. It's all down to the listener. — PJ Harvey

Mitt Romney has won the 2012 presidential nomination by promising Republicans that he would end a so-called 'culture of dependency' on welfare - welfare defined as 'free stuff' and food stamps for poor folks, not tax breaks for Big Oil or tax shelters for Bain executives. — Christine Pelosi

The difficulty of accurate recognition constitutes one of the most serious sources of friction in war, by making things appear entirely different from what one had expected. — Carl Von Clausewitz

Why did I not know that birth is the pinnacle where women discover the courage to become mothers? — Anita Diamant

He'd thought all weak men were sissies, and maybe they were, but Paul had shown him that not all sissies were weak. — Daniel Black

Always think positively, don't smoke, don't drink, don't dwell on bad thoughts, don't waste time brooding, and go for a walk every day! — Karsten Thormaehlen

Unexpected gifts were better accepted when they were presented by total strangers, I had learnt. — Vann Chow

The revolutionary and critical thinker is in a certain way always outside of his society while of course he is at the same time also in it. — Erich Fromm

Completely committed to adapting 'Fifty Shades of Grey'. This is not a joke. Christian Grey and Ana: potentially great cinematic characters. — Bret Easton Ellis

I met Rodney when I first moved to LA, so I'd say 20 years. He's the eternal teenager. — Kathy Valentine

Young screenwriters are always very frustrated when they talk to me. They say, 'How do we get to be a screenwriter?' I say, 'You know what you do? I'll tell you the secret, it's easy: Read 'Hamlet.' You know? Then read it again, and read it again, and read it until you understand it. Read 'King Lear,' and then read 'Othello.' — John Logan