Demetrious Cox Quotes & Sayings

Feckless as it was for Bush to ask Americans to go shopping after 9/11, we all too enthusiastically followed his lead, whether we were wealthy, working-class or in between. We spent a decade feasting on easy money, don't-pay-as-you-go consumerism and a metastasizing celebrity culture. — Frank Rich

If I fell down and hurt myself, I never cried. There was no one to hear me. — Louise Fletcher

Jerrie Cobb reached down and pulled the heavy layers of arctic clothing over her navy blue linen dress. — Martha Ackmann

Nobody can make a putt that breaks to the right. It's unnatural. Unless you're left-handed, of course. Standing over a putt that breaks to the right can actually make you dizzy. I've long thought that right-breaking putts are a major contributor to mental and physical ill health. — Dan Jenkins

Demetrious was studying Law on the Open University and was, in all ways, a ray of sunshine into her life: warm and glorious, achingly temporary. He lived just off the high street with his boyfriend Rob, who worked in the City, doing something neither Demi nor Sukie pretended to understand.
"All the cute guys are gay," Sukie had laughed, that first day, holding her coffee mug high to her face to hide her genuine disappointment. Demi had just tilted his head and looked at her playfully, an expression she would get to know well.
"I'm not gay," he had clarified, matter-of-factly.
"Living with a boyfriend called Rob doesn't sound very straight!" Sukie had pointed out.
"Labels!" Demi had scorned, with one of his characteristic and very Greek hand gestures. "I fall in love with the person, not the gender. — Erin Lawless

You become smart when you don't need to quote someone anymore.
I am still stupid: I quoted Chuck Palahiniuk — Chuck Palahniuk

Yeah, leading an examined life, I always say, is a pain in the ass. It adds an element of complexity to business that most businessmen don't want to hear about. They just want to call a fabric manufacturer, and say, "Hey, give us 10,000 yards of shirting." — Yvon Chouinard

The promises of God are samples of what is promised; as a handful of wheat is of the barn. — Coventry Patmore

The things that make me cry are when the people I love have gone through pain and I've seen it. — Taylor Swift

The only way to change is by changing your understanding. — Anthony De Mello

Women rarely need the things they want — Alessandra Torre

Soccer is the most widely played sport in the U.S. — Rabih Alameddine

As politics is disconnected from its ethical and material moorings, it becomes easier to punish and imprison young people than to educate them. — Henry Giroux