Disburdn Quotes & Sayings

A man speaks of what he knows, a woman of what pleases her: the one requires knowledge, the other taste. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Look, nearly everything in the culture says we're freaks. Doing sex work, we're desired; we can get rewarded for being what we've always wanted to be. What's so bad about that? My own notion is I wish sex work would be decriminalized (not legalized, please note the distinction) so that more trannies could get into the field if they wanted to and not get into trouble for it. — Kate Bornstein

Baseball can build you up to the sky one day and the next day you have to climb a stepladder to look up at a snake. — Johnny Pesky

There are certain truths which stand out so openly on the roadsides of life, as it were, that every passer-by may see them. Yet, because of their obviousness, the general run of people disregard such truths or at least they do not make them the object of any concious knowledge. People are so bliend to some of the simplest facts in everyday life that they are highly surprised when somebody calls attention to what everybody ought to know. — Adolf Hitler

I think participating in GISHWHES is a crash course in facing our fears: people go to crowded shopping malls wearing scuba gear, order from a fast food restaurant in Shakespearean verse or jump out of airplanes among many other tasks. — Misha Collins

I was, and still am, a dramatic rider. I believe that there's no point in doing something if you aren't going to do it with all of your heart. — Alessandra Torre

In the morning she found pieces of a bird
chopped and scattered by the fan
blood sprayed onto the mosquito net,
its body leaving paths on the walls
like red snails that drifted down in lumps.
She could imagine the feathers
while she had slept
falling around her
like slow rain. — Michael Ondaatje

Man, for someone like me who had George Jones music imprinted in my DNA before birth, the last few years have been rough as a fan of country music. — Sammy Kershaw