Comportant Quotes & Sayings

When I was young, women were raped on the campus of a great university and the authorities responded by telling all the women students not to go out alone after dark or not to be out at all. Get in the house. (For women, confinement is always waiting to envelope you.) Some pranksters put up a poster announcing another remedy, that all men be excluded from campus after dark. It was an equally logical solution, but men were shocked at being asked to disappear, to lose their freedom to move and participate, all because of the violence of one men. — Rebecca Solnit

I wrote ... Neon Ballroom in that time where I hated music, really everything about it, I hated it. — Daniel Johns

Rule #10 If you say it enough times in your head, it will come true (sometimes). — Meg Cabot

Creativity is incredibly important, but drive is equally so. — Sophia Amoruso

Yeah, but a hellbender never dies. You ever see a dead one? — Jason Jack Miller

Civilization ... is another word for respect for life. One can't have too much respect for a loveliness that's brittle as spun glass. — Elizabeth Goudge

Spontaneous is what you get after the seventeenth draft. — John Ciardi

Any grand new dictionary ought itself to be a democratic product, a book that demonstrated the primacy of individual freedoms, of the notion that one could use words freely, as one liked, without hard and fast rules of lexical conduct. — Simon Winchester

Washington departed the planet as admirably as he had inhabited it. He had long hated slavery, even though he had profited from it. Now, in his will, he stipulated that his slaves should be emancipated after Martha's death, and he set aside funds for slaves who would be either too young or too old to care for themselves. Of the nine American presidents who owned slaves - a list that includes his fellow Virginians Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe - only Washington set free all of his slaves. Washington — Ron Chernow

I don't see the point in caffeine without coffee. Or coffee without caffeine, for that matter, I informed him. — Robyn Schneider