Considerations Regarding Quotes & Sayings

When people feel the need to declare that they are not basic ... that's when you know they're basic. — Donna Lynn Hope

If you don't have money handled, you don't live free. — Jeff Olson

...for example, if Freud is wrong, as i and many others believe, where does that leave any number of novels and virtually the entire corpus of surrealism, Dada, and certain major forms of expressionism and abstraction, not to mention Richard Strauss' 'Freudian' operas such as Salome and Elektra, and the iconic novels of numerous writers such as D.H. Lawrence, Franz Kafka, Thomas Mann and Virginia Woolf? It doesn't render these works less beautiful or pleasurable, necessarily, but it surely dilutes their meaning. They don't owe their entire existence to psychoanalysis. But if they are robbed of a large part of their meaning, can they retain their intellectual importance and validity? Or do they become period pieces? I stress the point because the novels, paintings and operas referred to above have helped to popularise and legitimise a certain view of human nature, one that is, all evidence to the contrary lacking, wrong. — Peter Watson

I have a couple of basses in my office. And I try to be courteous of my co-workers, but sometimes I get carried away and I crank up my amp and I rock out. It's kind of my stress reliever. — Lester Holt

Oh, hell, I can't go on a spiritual journey - I'm constipated. — Molly Ivins

This false epistemology, however, has also led to disastrous consequences. The theory that truth is manifest - that it is there for everyone to see, if only he wants to see it - this theory is the basis of almost every kind of fanaticism. For only the most depraved wickedness can refuse to see the manifest truth; only those who have reason to fear truth conspire to suppress it. — Karl Popper

Socialism for rich bankers and capitalism for everyone else. — Robert Reich

I've been involved in one or two successes in classical plays but nothing to touch the excitement and the glamour and the gratification of being a children's hero for so long. — Tom Baker

If you come back; I'll marry you. If you break your promise, you'll break my heart — Nicholas Sparks

I shouldn't even be wearing a tutu. I don't have the right legs, my muscles are too big. — Misty Copeland

The distinguishing trait of people accustomed to good society is a calm, imperturbable quiet which pervades all their actions and habits, from the greatest to the least. They eat in quiet, move in quiet, live in quiet, and lose their wife, or even their money, in quiet; while low persons cannot take up either a spoon or an affront without making such an amazing noise about it. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

To keep our faces toward change, and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate, is strength undefeatable. — Helen Keller

Life would be boring if we knew how things would turn out in the future. You don't plot out your life and then live it. You live your life and see how it turns out. — Lisa Scott