Discardable Quotes & Sayings

Nothing is more irritating than not being invited to a party you wouldn't be seen dead at — Bill Vaughan

You can trace an entire childhood in sexism through the entries sent in to the Everyday Sexism Project. The flashes of realization and first, painful moments of learning a woman's place. Often the memories are so vivid women carry and are shaped by them for the rest of their lives. I've been asked in countless interviews what has shocked me the most since starting the project. I think journalists expect me to tell them that it's the stories of rape, or the most appalling accounts of violence. Those stories have certainly angered and devastated me, of course, but nothing has shocked me more than the thousands and thousands of entries from young girls under the age of eighteen. When I started the project, I thought adult women would share their stories. The torrent of harassment, abuse, violence and assault being faced by children was a horribly unexpected surprise. People — Laura Bates

You're not what you eat; you're what you believe about what you eat. — Wayne Dyer

Unlike television or the computer, language appears to be not an extension of our powers but simply a natural expression of who and what we are. This is the great secret of language: Because it comes from inside us, we believe it to be a direct, unedited, unbiased, apolitical expression of how the world really is. A machine, on the other hand, is outside of us, clearly created by us, modifiable by us, even discardable by us; it is easier to see how a machine re-creates the world in its own image. But in many respects, a sentence functions very much like a machine, and this is nowhere more obvious than in the sentences we call questions. — Neil Postman

It has been a whirlwind really, it all happened so quickly! I auditioned for Australian Idol for the 3rd time ... to see where I was and if I had improved with my singing; and the next thing I knew in the final 12 and it went nuts from there - I walked straight off stage at the finals into a press conference and didn't have a days rest 'till New Years Day. — Kate DeAraugo

I finished 'American Born Chinese' in 2005, so after that, I started actively researching the Boxer Rebellion. — Gene Luen Yang

the rise in the incidence in obesity matches the rise in the use and distribution of industrial chemicals that may be playing a role in a generation of obesity, suggesting Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals (EDCs) may be linked to this epidemic" (Perrine, 2010). — Peter Greenlaw

All backwoods folks were poor by material standards; they knew how to make do. They were not wanting to tame the wildness, in themselves or nature. — Bell Hooks

Painters work from the ground up. The latest version of a painting overlays earlier versions, and obliterates them. Writers, on the other hand, work from left to right. The discardable chapters are on the left. — Annie Dillard

It was a vast, luminous dream in which his whole life seemed to stretch out before him like a landscape on a summer evening after rain — George Orwell

Dickens' plots are his most discardable properties, and often have to be pushed aside to let the strange poetry of his imagination emerge. — John Carey

Nothing changed the fact that she was a lost, skinny child in another foreign place, with more foreign people. Alone. — Markus Zusak

I'm never worried about being upstaged. I love to have the best, most individual people come in and see if we hit on something. — Teddy Thompson

You had lots of visitors, but they were all quiet."

"Oh real funny. Tease the blind man."

~Trella to Logan, pg. 114-115 — Maria V. Snyder

I think a lot about teaching my kids to work hard. — Jennifer Lopez

Your circumstances do not make you who you are! — Mary J. Blige