Drazens Department Quotes & Sayings

Once we know and are aware, we are responsible for our action and our inaction. We can do something about it or ignore it. Either way, we are still responsible. — Jean-Paul Sartre

We have an obligation to read aloud to our children. To read them things they enjoy. To read to them stories we are already tired of. To do the voices, to make it interesting, and not to stop reading to them just because they learn to read to themselves. We have an obligation to use reading-aloud time as bonding time, as time when no phones are being checked, when the distractions of the world are put aside. We have an obligation to use the language. To push ourselves: to find out what words mean and how to deploy them, to communicate clearly, to say what we mean. We must not attempt to freeze language, or to pretend it is a dead thing that must be revered, but we should use it as a living thing, that flows, that borrows words, that allows meanings and pronunciations to change with time. — Neil Gaiman

Either invest or withdraw. — Donna Lynn Hope

The trouble is, we are incurable sentimentalists. We insist on makin over historical characters to suit our preconceived notions of what they should be, chipping, sandpapering, and polishing each personality until it assumes what we consider the proper contour and color. — Nancy Byrd Turner

Not using faults does not mean that one does not have them. — Antonio Porchia

The flesh of king salmon, which varies in color from white to pink to red, has a high fat content, making it perfect for grilling. — Tom Douglas

Joyful people make us come alive. — John Ortberg

I do believe that you've got a bad case of the Gottafuckems! — Colleen Masters

I will not accept racism at all. It's unacceptable. If someone throws a banana at me in the street, I will go to jail, because I will kill them. — Mario Balotelli

Mr. Awkward rolls up between us, lights a cigarette, makes himself comfortable. It's the same bastard who shows up after you've bumped uglies with a stranger. — Victoria Scott

You know what I realized?" "What?" "Most of the people I know are dead. I guess that happens — Lawrence Block

I have contacts with the Tour de France which keep me close to cycling. — Bernard Hinault

Barack Obama has domesticated the left in such a way that we feel as if we have no alternative but him ... I refuse to accept that. — Cornel West

You should never say anything to a woman that even remotely suggests you think she's pregnant unless you can see an actual baby emerging from her at that moment. — Dave Barry