Eccentrically Inserted Quotes & Sayings

The arts teach and moralise by their beauty alone, not by translating a philosophical or social formula. For the truly artistic person, painting has itself as it's purpose, which is quite enough. — Theophile Gautier

Future generation is the most important thing. — Confucius

As if the parents we were born to weren't always a matter of happenstance: an elbow jostled at a bar, a muscular hand smoothing the hair away from a blue-shadowed eye, a quick decision that this girl looks hot or that guy seems safe. We are never guaranteed that the people who fit together so deliciously in the heat of a moment can building a lasting love. And it is love, the breadth and force of being wholly, unabashedly loved - not just having two parents who look like the wax figures on a wedding cake - that affirms and redeems us. Poverty alone doesn't always spark violence. And a two-parent home isn't always the antidote. The urge to obliterate is as dark and unknowable as the hollows of our bones. — Laura Bogart

Are women human yet? If women were human, would we be a cash crop shipped from Thailand in containers into New York's brothels...? Would our genitals be sliced out to "cleanse" us...? When will women be human? When? ~ Half The Sky — Catherine Mackinnon

The song, to me, is about what it is to be a human, what it is to love someone as a human being, and organizations that would undermine that, and undermine the more natural parts of being a person — Hozier

That audience is there for me. — GG Allin

Few people realize the number of things that are possible. — Richard P. Feynman

It's very easy in a way, horrible in some ways, but simply to give up the whole thing, to say, "Well, the hell with it, as far as I'm concerned life is pointless and [so] live the fullest, most successfully self-fulfilling life you can and let the rest go hang" - I've never reached that point in my life. — Frederick Buechner

She held his beautiful face and kissed him like it was the end of the world. — Rainbow Rowell

Protect the workers, encourage the rich. — Victor Hugo

Souls will never ascend to Heaven until the sight of beauty lifts them there. — Michelangelo

By using your intelligence, you can sometimes make your problems twice as complicated. — Ashleigh Brilliant

Each class would have preached the importance of those virtues, for whose exercise there was no necessity in their own lives. — Oscar Wilde

They don't want to get dirty and they know that Trump loves this kind of thing. And your polls, and yours are what's giving them the material that they need, it's the oxygen that the Trump campaign requires, a poll every three or four days showing him where he is. — Ted Koppel

Boring is a syndrome of being to simple. — Deyth Banger