Craned Define Quotes & Sayings

If I'm interrupted, it's just a minor inconvenience, but not a disaster, because it's easy to get back where I was: that is, the paint has not changed consistency; the light has not moved. — Buffy Sainte-Marie

Every woman should shave her head once in her life, to experience what it feels like. — Bai Ling

You can't acquire a voice. Either you have it, or you don't. — Lauren Bacall

Loneliness is the most severe punishment. We are not built to handle it. I — Jan-Philipp Sendker

Joys are like stray cats...the more you feed them...the more you get! ~Bertha — Jane Carroll

She had dreamed that she lay beneath a spreading tree somewhere, a tree that whispered with ten thousand soft lips of green; and the dream continued for a moment even after waking. — Algernon Blackwood

I knew he would be dead, because Dally Winston wanted to be dead and he always got what he wanted. — S.E. Hinton

In an angry fit, my mother had called him an airhead, who couldn't find his brain even if it came knocking on his door. — Jayde Scott

It's not that we have too much mother, but too little father. We can't forgive our mothers for taking the place of our fathers until we are ready to see that the point of a man's life is to be a father and a mentor, and we can't do that because we don't know how we would be a father or a mentor when we never had one. — Frank Pittman

Therefore the sage desires what (other men) do not desire, and does not prize things difficult to get; he learns what (other men) do not learn, and turns back to what the multitude of men have passed by. — Lao-Tzu

I watched you fall
in love again
and couldn't help
but laugh. — Pamela August Russell

It's not about what you did yesterday, it's what you do tomorrow. If you rely too much on yesterday, tomorrow is going to jump up and bite you in the pants. — John Vanbiesbrouck

Individually the poor are not too tempting to thieves, for obvious reasons. Mug a banker and you might score a wallet containing a month's rent. Mug a janitor and you will be lucky to get away with bus fare to flee the crime scene. — Barbara Ehrenreich

People are users. It's a universal truth. Use them, or they'll use you. — Victoria Schwab

This digital revolutionary still believes in most of the lovely deep ideals that energized our work so many years ago. At the core was a sweet faith in human nature. If we empowered individuals, we believed, more good than harm would result.
The way the internet has gone sour since then is truly perverse. The central faith of the web's early design has been superseded by a different faith in the centrality of imaginary entities epitomized by the idea that the internet as a whole is coming alive and turning into a superhuman creature.
The designs guided by this new, perverse kind of faith put people back in the shadows. The fad for anonymity has undone the great opening-of-everyone's-windows of the 1990s. While that reversal has empowered sadists to a degree, the worst effect is a degradation of ordinary people. — Jaron Lanier