Dormitory Floor Quotes & Sayings

Every wonderful thing in our world has a fight in its history: our rights, our good fortune, our happiness. All that is sweet was paid for, once upon a time, by principled people who risked everything to change the world for the better. — Cory Doctorow

He glanced down at me, a tiny smirk on his face. "I thought you like it when I go all Batman," he teased. "Yeah, well, all Batman's girlfriends die," I retorted. "You watch too many movies. — Tiffany Snow

And offers me a black rose.
"I figured you'd hate flowers, so I decided to get one that matched your soul" He says. I take the flower, careful not to touch any of his long finger. — Sara Wolf

"You're wearing your Seduction Hat. Why am I not surprised?"
He offers a pirate's smile. "Did you notice ... I've a new embellishment?" He makes a show of adjusting an owl's tail feather in the band.
I bite back a giggle. "Vegetarian barn owl, I presume?"
"Won't be bothering me again for some time."
"I can guarantee it's not the only one out there."
He loops my arm through his. "Good. I'm always up for a worthy chase." — A.G. Howard

The most dangerous thing Iraq could have ever had was a nuclear weapon. The nuclear weapon Iraq was trying to build was not deliverable by bomb or ballistic missile. It was a large, bulky device that they hoped to bury and set off to let the world know they had a nuclear weapon. They never achieved that. — Scott Ritter

I could not walk
except with you,
... I could not sing
except when you sing. — Pablo Neruda

Snow White gets a Social Security card. She gets a job building houses out in California. Picks oranges. — Catherynne M Valente

When a man dies, he does not just die of the disease he has: he dies of his whole life. — Charles Peguy

For what a man is in himself, what accompanies him when he is alone, what no one can give or take away, is obviously more essential to him than everything he has in the way of possessions, or even what he may be in the eyes of the world. An intellectual man in complete solitude has excellent entertainment in his own thoughts and fancies, while no amount of diversity or social pleasure, theatres, excursions and amusements, can ward off boredom from a dullard. — Arthur Schopenhauer

The young desired to be free of the adults, and at the same time were prepared to resent any hint that the adults might desire to be free of them. — A.S. Byatt

Whether I scare some people or not, I don't give a hoot. If you're not scared by now, nothing can scare you. — Yuri Bezmenov

I wanted to lift the aspects of the lyrics and imagery that I found sincerely powerful and touching, plus the amazing musical extremities, and make my own thing. That's what making music has always been for me. Synthesizing a nonexistent kind of music that I wish existed because I wanted to listen to it. — Phil Elvrum

When I had attained the age of seventeen my parents resolved that I should become a student at the university of Ingolstadt. I had hitherto attended the schools of Geneva, but my father thought it necessary for the completion of my education that I should be made acquainted with other customs than those of my native country. My departure was therefore fixed at an early date, but before the day solved upon could arrive, the first misfortune of my life occurred - an omen, as it were, of my future misery. — Mary Shelley