Drollene Quotes & Sayings

Celibacy is nothing if not abnormal. The human body and brain are not made for such programming. Whatever normal is, it does not include celibacy. — Darrel Ray

Our culture teaches us about shame - it dictates what is acceptable and what is not. We weren't born craving perfect bodies. We weren't born afraid to tell our stories. We weren't born with a fear of getting too old to feel valuable. We weren't born with a Pottery Barn catalog in one hand and heartbreaking debt in the other. Shame comes from outside of us - from the messages and expectations of our culture. What comes from the inside of us is a very human need to belong, to relate. — Brene Brown

This is my knife. It is very sharp and very eager to hurt you. — Lemony Snicket

We didn't know it at the time, but we were lovesick. Our innocence was beautiful, impossible to capture again, impossible to re-create. — Renee Carlino

I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. - Jack London — Jack London

I have learned, even though I have been cloistered from the world so long, that no man really looks with favour upon the one who gives him favour, unasked. — Martha Rofheart

If I've learned anything over the years, it's that horses do listen to you. They may not have a clue what you're saying, but they know the tone in which you say it. I'll sing to horses so hooked on their own nerves they're ready to climb into the sky, and sometimes it's one of the only things that keep them on the ground. — Mara Dabrishus

It's great to work with the people who make you laugh and who are funnier than I am. — Ben Stiller

You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world ... but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices. — John Green

As long as there are things to wonder about, there are stories to be written about them. That makes me happy, because writing about things seems to be my thing. — Henry Petroski

We live in a world that fosters distraction, hysteria and a manic addiction to inputs. We are a culture of checkers. We check our phones, we check our feeds, we check our follows. We check the headlines. Always input. Always checking. Always someone else's agenda. And we suck it in like we can't get enough. Because we can't. — Christine Kane

I respect hippos. They just look the way they do; they can't do anything about it, but they don't seem bothered. — Laura Mvula

It's an addiction. I love clothes. I like to go down Melrose and look in all the windows and I go to different flea markets. I have lots of costumes. You never know when you're going to have to dress up like a milkmaid from the 1600s. — Zooey Deschanel