Contexts Journal Quotes & Sayings

Reason is simply a vast tautology. — J.M. Coetzee

Why would you like someone who can't like you back? — John Green

You always end up getting involved in things because of, you know, the strange things your life brings you into contact with. — Edward Norton

To cultivate an English accent is already a departure away from what you are. — Sean Connery

In Hollywood there are a lot of very insecure men running the business. — Rosanna Arquette

Was she acting entirely consciously? No: women are always sincere, even in the midst of their most shocking duplicities, because it is always some natural emotion which dominates them. Perhaps, having given this young man such a hold on her, by having openly demonstrated her affection for him, Delphine was merely responding to a sense of personal dignity, which led her either to revoke any concessions she might have made or, at least, to enjoy suspending them. Even at the very moment when passion seizes her, it is perfectly natural for a Parisian woman to delay her final fall, as a way of testing the heart of the man into whose hands she is about to deliver herself and her future! — Honore De Balzac

If you're a strong female, you don't need permission. — Lady Gaga

Later he decided the specifics were not important, that the true lesson of accidents is not the how or the why, but the taken-for-granted world they exile you from. — Colson Whitehead

From the age of about five to twelve I was very bad, a hideous little terror who beat people up. I was a member of the Rough Gang - we went around and terrorized all the pupils in school. — Joseph Fiennes

The 808 kick drum makes the girlies get dumb,
We're rollin' Rainier, and the jealous wanna get some.
Every time we do the sucka MC's wanna battle,
I'm the man they love to hate, the J.R. Ewing of Seattle ... — Sir Mix-a-Lot

You'd kill yourself for recognition
kill yourself to never, ever stop
You broke another mirror
you're turning into something you are not. — Tonya Hurley

They can't push women all the way back, but they can use women's bodies to keep them under surveillance and control. — Katha Pollitt

Our economy is increasingly dependent on the success and integrity of the financial markets. — Michael Douglas

Music is a big passion of mine, and to be able to do it on the side of acting would be amazing. — Tony Oller

If the purpose of love is getting into bed; I guess prostitutes are the most auspicious lovers. — M.F. Moonzajer