Clauter 50 Quotes & Sayings

Years ago in 1959 when Dellinger was already an editor on Liberation (then an anarchist-pacifist magazine, of worthy but not very readable articles in more or less vegetarian prose) Mailer had submitted a piece, after some solicitation, on the contrast between real obscenity in advertising, and alleged obscenity in four-letter words. The piece was no irreplaceable work of prose, and in fact was eventually inserted quietly into his book, Advertisements for Myself, but it created difficulty for the editorial board at Liberation, since there was a four-letter word he had used to make his point, the palpable four-letter word which signifies a woman's most definitive organ: these editorial anarchists were decorous; they were ready to overthrow society and replace it with a communion of pacifistic men free of all laws, but they were not ready to print cunt. — Norman Mailer

Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very quiet if only those birds sing there that sang best. — Henry Van Dyke

There are two principles here: one is the actual needs of the masses rather than what we fancy they need, and the other is the wishes of the masses, who must make up their own minds instead of our making up their minds for them. — Mao Zedong

I don't know if I was the baddest. People kind of saw me in that light. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

To lead others out of darkness, let them see your light. — Tristan Bernard

There, flanking either side of the walkway were a pair of raised fountains. The base of each was a shell-shaped bowl filled with water and lily pads. Standing in each bowl was the masculine version of Boticelli's famous "Birth of Venus". The man stood in the same pose as Venus, left hand coyly drawn up o cover his chest, right down by his genitals, yet instead of covering them, he held his optimistically endowed penis, pointing it upward. Water jetted from each penis, and over into the basin of the twin statue opposite. The water didn't flow in a smooth stream though. It spurted. "Please tell me there is something wrong with his water pressure" Cassandra said. "No, I believe that's the desired effect. — Kelley Armstrong

My easiest judgment for a script is 'do I want to keep reading it?' — Jason Blum

Whoever mocks his brother for a sin they repented from will not die till he himself falls into the same sin. — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

I tune everything out. — Joshua Ledet

With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. — Henry Ford

It isn't often one gets the chance to entertain one's great-great-great-grandmother. Sassinak. — Anne McCaffrey

Those whose cause is just will never lack good arguments. — Euripides

I have been occupied with this story, during many working hours of two years. I must have been very ill employed, if I could not leave its merits and demerits as a whole, to express themselves on its being read as a whole. But, as it is not unreasonable to suppose that I may have held its threads with a more continuous attention than anyone else can have given them during its desultory publication, it is not unreasonable to ask that the weaving may be looked at in its completed state, and with the pattern finished. — Charles Dickens