Ebullient Def Quotes & Sayings

We think according to nature. We speak according to rules. We act according to custom. — Francis Bacon

Somebody said, 'Roger doesn't know how to spend money.' And I thought, 'I don't spend money because I don't have it!' If I had it, I could spend money! That's about the only time I was told that! — Roger Corman

When you are a trailblazer you have many trees to cut down. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Women could compress a great deal into one look. — Robert Jordan

Until that morning when we all went to the riverbank, I still believed Mother would take Leah, not me. Leah who, even in her malarial stupor, rushed forward to crouch with the battery in the canoe and counter its odd tilt. I was outshone was usual by her heroism. But as we watched that pirogue drift away across the Kwenge, Mother gripped my hand so tightly I understood that I had been chosen. She would drag me out of Africa if it was her last living act as a mother. I think probably it was. — Barbara Kingsolver

The sand has rules. Fucked up rules, but rules nonetheless. — Kameron Hurley

Denice Franke is a sensitive and compelling singer and songwriter. — Lyle Lovett

This is the first time in my 32 years in public broadcasting that PBS has ordered up programs for ideological instead of journalistic reasons. — Bill Moyers

The saxophone is a very interesting machine, but I'm more interested in music. — Steve Lacy

Most valuable art in our time has been experienced by audiences as a move into silence (or unintelligibility or invisibility or inaudibility); a dismantling of the artist's competence, his responsible sense of vocation - and therefore as an aggression against them. Modern — Susan Sontag

Old Care has a mortgage on every estate, And that's what you pay for the wealth that you get. — John Godfrey Saxe

All definitions of civilization along to a conjugation which goes: I am civilized, you belong to a culture, he is a barbarian. — Felipe Fernandez-Armesto