Creawave Quotes & Sayings

I am climbing to my freedom, freedom from fear, freedom from marrying the wrong person, like Buddy Willard, just because of sex, freedom from the Florence Crittenden Homes where all the poor girls go who should have been fitted out like me, because what they did, they would do anyway.. — Sylvia Plath

Advancing bourgeois society liquidates memory, time, recollection as irrational leftovers of the past. — Theodor Adorno

Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way. — Hosea Ballou

Race is still the No. 1 determinant in every election. — Nate Silver

Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people. — Robert Benchley

Despair is a form of certainty, certainty that the future will be a lot like the present or decline from it. Optimism is similarly confident about what will happen. Both are grounds for not acting. Hope can be the knowledge that reality doesn't necessarily match our plans. — Rebecca Solnit

The truth was that, you know, there was no reason to send me to Shattuck Military School. But it was a disciplinarian school. — Nick Nolte

Your being is real and it gets to have everything. It gets to have your preferences, your person, and all of your plans. — John De Ruiter

He asked me about headaches, nausea, vision problems, and when I had my last period. This is apparently the single most vital piece of information concerning a woman's body. You are asked this question repeatedly and by every person at every doctor's visit from the time you're twelve until you're given your last rites. "I'm sorry," says the priest, "but before I can absolve you of all sin and allow you to go to heaven, you must first tell me the date of your last menstrual period. — Kathleen Cosgrove

Paul (McCartney) and I made a deal when we were 15. There was never a legal deal between us, just a deal we made when we decided to write together that we put both our names on it, no matter what. — John Lennon

Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge. — Matthew Arnold

A boat without port is free only until the storm breaks out! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Bela had thought she knew what love felt like, but when she saw Sanjay at the airport after six long months, her heart gave a great, hurtful lurch, as though it were trying to leap out of her body to meet him. This, she thought. This is it. But it was only part of the truth. She would learn over the next years that love can feel a lot of different ways, and sometimes it can hurt a lot more. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

I have to admit, the terrorists were following their prophet," Dan says. "They were willing to do essentially what I did. I see the parallel. But the difference between those guys and me is, they were following a false prophet, and I'm not. "I believe I'm a good person," Dan insists. "I've never done anything intentionally wrong. I never have. — Jon Krakauer

It seems as though our ability to change technology happens so quickly, and our ability to evolve as creatures is still very slow. — Chuck Klosterman