Collaterally Quotes & Sayings

When my generation of women walked away from the kitchen we were escorted down that path by a profiteering industry that knew a tired, vulnerable marketing target when they saw it. "Hey, ladies," it said to us, "go ahead, get liberated. We'll take care of dinner." They threw open the door and we walked into a nutritional crisis and genuinely toxic food supply. If you think toxic is an exaggeration, read the package directions for handling raw chicken from a CAFO. We came a long way, baby, into bad eating habits and collaterally impaired family dynamics. No matter what else we do or believe, food remains at the center of every culture. Ours now runs on empty calories. — Barbara Kingsolver

Evolution is, as an engineer, an opportunist, not a perfectionist. — Stanislaw Lem

The human mind, in taking us down the path of technocracy, has become the adversary of life itself and collaterally the adversary of the human soul. — Konrad Lorenz

Passionately prejudiced people always turn out, under scrutiny, to be people who cannot get along on a footing of equality with anyone ... — Margaret Halsey

It is, perhaps, a debatable question, whether a person who has always been notoriously in the habit of lying, has a right to tell the truth; it is, of course, the only device by which he can deceive people. — George D. Prentice

I've always found life quite difficult to explain to people or to myself. — John Cleese

Barbarians have no woman to teach them civilization. Barbarians cannot learn." I — Patrick Rothfuss

I wanna scream and dream and throw a love parade / Is that okay? — Janelle Monae

Nothing can compare with the time spent with God — Sunday Adelaja

I was considered an ugly duckling. — Eartha Kitt

It's an immensely competitive business, and I can tell you the older you get, the parts are fewer, and the people who are proven performers are greater. — John Hurt

Take Washington, D.C., which spends over $10,000 per student for education whose student achievement would be dead last if Mississippi chose to secede from the Union. Suppose Washington gave each parent even a $5,000 voucher - that wouldn't mean less money available per student. To the contrary, holding total education expenditures constant, it'd mean more money per student remaining in public schools. — Walter E. Williams

Art is short for artificial ... so the art of art is to be as real as you can within this artificial situation ...
In a way it's a lie to get you to see the truth. — Joni Mitchell