Descreening Quotes & Sayings

Homemade is a myth. You want to know some things that are homemade? Crystal meth. Crack cocaine. A pipe bomb full of nails. Now we're talkin' homemade. — George Carlin

Japan learned from the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that the tragedy wrought by nuclear weapons must never be repeated and that humanity and nuclear weapons cannot coexist. — Daisaku Ikeda

I've got the attention span of a child. — Ricky Gervais

Bobby just stared at me. There was already crumbs in his mustache and it was barely seven in the morning. — Susan Juby

Tanner: My dear Tavy, your pious English habit of regarding the world as a moral gymnasium built expressly to strengthen your character in leads you to think about your own confounded principles when you should be thinking about other people's necessities. — George Bernard Shaw

I think it would be really rotten to tell boys that schools won't cater for them properly because men have unquestionably been dominant for thousands of years. A feminism that deliberately neglects boys is immoral in my opinion. — Kristina Schroder

I was very awkward as a kid. I was a square trying to fit into a circle and it never worked for me. The harder I tried, the harder I fell. For some reason I was a real target and I got beat up and called names. — Sarah McLachlan

Not about the perversities of others, not about their sins of commission or omission, but about his own misdeeds and negligences alone should a sage be worried. — The Dharmapada

A lot of people have culturally induced ethical blindness, but they can be cured! — Ingrid Newkirk

Christmas is not a myth, not a tradition, not a dream. It is a glorious reality. — Billy Graham

Coonskin caps and silly putty were just not going to cut it anymore. The good mother got her kids toys that were educational, that advanced gross and fine motor skills, that gave them the spatial sensibilities and design aptitude of Frank Lloyd Wright, and that taught Johnny how to read James Joyce at age three. God forbid that one second should pass where your child was idle and that you were not doing everything you could to promote his or her emotional, cognitive, imaginative, quantitative, or muscular development. — Susan Douglas

The greatest discovery of any generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering the attitudes of their minds. — Albert Schweitzer