Desonate Quotes & Sayings

Agnes felt that beauty was even more likely to be in the eye of the beholder if the feet of the beholder were on something solid. At ten thousand feet up, the eye of the beholder tends to water. — Terry Pratchett

Tis a dainty thing to command, though twere but a flock of sheep. — Miguel De Cervantes

We return you to the Vice President, who is now addressing the National Sword Swallowers Association."
"-the psychotics, the sob sisters, the skin merchants, the saboteurs, the self-styled Sapphos, the self-styled Swinburners, the swine, the satyrs, the schizos, the sodomists, the sissies, the screamers, the screwy, the scum, the self-congratulatory self-congratulators, the sensationalists, the snakes in the grass, the sex fiends, the shiftless, the shines, the shaggy, the sickly, the syphilitic- — Philip Roth

Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes - the outsider, the loner - it can have a real impact on the art when they realize, I have friends, I'm married, or I have kids. That's certainly happened to me. — Adrian Tomine

I've always thought of myself as a reporter. — Gwendolyn Brooks

what's really unique about maternal anxiety today is our belief that if something goes wrong with or for our children, it's a reflection on us as mothers. Because we believe we should be able to control life so perfectly that we can keep bad things from happening. — Judith Warner

Don't be afraid of being emotional. You won't die of it. — John Osborne

An artist should remain true. Otherwise his talent, like his stomach, grows fat and stuffy. — Norman Reilly Raine

Now if I was aping men, she'd have every right to be disgusted. As far as I was concerned, men were something you had around the place ... not particularly interesting, but quite harmless. — Jeanette Winterson

We do not know which of our silver products will be judged as gold by our successors, nor does it matter. — Doris Lessing

We do not have thousands of years to unlearn the wrong patters that were established over thousands of years. The exponential speed-up of these cumulative patterns of destruction means we have to both learn new patterns and put them into practice on a global scale within the next generation. — Rosemary Radford Ruether

It's a no-win situation with politics; it's always going to be stressful. I'm more into the comedy of life. — Jordan Peele

The not so simple Truth is that we must be psychologically free in order to resist and we must resist in order to be free, and all of this requires an understanding of what bondage has been, of what it continues to be and of its ramifications for the future. — Mari Evans

Everyone has a colorful life. You just have to get out your crayons. — Benay Nordby