Codewords Quotes & Sayings

It's said that I went into a rant, but I think it went on for about five words. I was drunk. It just turned into a big thing. I apologized profusely-not once but three times. So what's the problem? It's four years ago. Do I need to apologize again? — Mel Gibson

The first possibility of rural cleanliness lies in water supply. — Florence Nightingale

I began writing seriously in my mid-20s and didn't publish my first book until I was 41. — Kent Haruf

Given the manifest frailty of men, given the long succession of delusions that was their history, what could be more preposterous than claiming oneself the least deluded, let alone privy to the absolute? — R. Scott Bakker

I am better able to retract what I did not say than what I did. — Solomon Ibn Gabirol

I think film is a director's medium and the good filmmakers that I like tell the darker stories. Therefore, I'm always inclined to follow people like David Cronenberg. — Naomi Watts

Our revolution is not a public-speaking tournament. Our revolution is not a battle of fine phrases. Our revolution is not simply for spouting slogans that are no more than signals used by manipulators trying to use them as catchwords, as codewords, as a foil for their own display. Our revolution is, and should continue to be, the collective effort of revolutionaries to transform reality, to improve the concrete situation of the masses of our country. — Thomas Sankara

Life is strong and fragile. It's a paradox ... It's both things, like quantum physics: It's a particle and a wave at the same time. It all exists all together. — Joan Jett

The birds suffer their suffering each in a lifetime, forgetting it as they go. — Guy Davenport

All this role model bullshit; you don't have any extra responsibilities because you made some good songs! Your only responsibility is to make good songs. — Kanye West

If only I could sit and patch them up for him. That was my great ambition. — Kiera Cass

When I see a white piece of paper, I feel I've got to draw. And drawing, for me, is the beginning of everything. — Ellsworth Kelly

from the poem Holographic Personality Disgrace:

Some people are such assholes that saying, "Look, again, I'm sorry I cut off my thumb and glued it to your baby's head because I thought you'd like him better as a unicorn" means nothing to them. — Sam Pink

I wanted to be a soccer player; I wanted to do it at the highest level. — Tim Howard

I've longed for kids since I was very, very young. And so ... I'm waiting to find the right person, someone who's willing to take on the job. — Prince Harry