Edgy Memoir Quotes & Sayings

War is smaller in scale than in recent memory, but it is far more ambiguous, intractable, and nasty. Money flows more quickly than ever, but it is still somehow manages to gather and puddle in certain places, for certain people rather then others. — Mark Kingwell

It is something to hold the scepter with a firm hand.
[Lat., Est aliquid valida sceptra tenere manu.] — Ovid

At any one time, I'll have 30 to 40 pieces going on in the studio, so this is not economically driven at all. — Richard MacDonald

From my first stab at second base, I became obsessively concerned for my vaginal upkeep. I began shaving the day after I felt my first tongue down my throat. The first buzz was a disaster, causing horrifically itchy dull razor breakout that made me look like I made love to a poison ivy bush. Whenever I thought there was a chance of unveiling my privates, I smothered every breakout with the same foundation I used for the occasional teenage acne face breakouts. — Maggie Young

Human beings- I've observed- are hot-wired for score keeping, and since they like to win, they're always going one better than the other fellow. — Margaret Atwood

What takes us back to the past are the memories.
What brings us forward is our dreams. — Jeremy Irons

All the fatt's in the fire. — John Marston

Novels are not about expressing yourself, they're about something beautiful, funny, clever and organic. Self-expression? Go and ring a bell in a yard if you want to express yourself. — Zadie Smith

Biodiversity is the totality of all inherited variation in the life forms of Earth, of which we are one species. We study and save it to our great benefit. We ignore and degrade it to our great peril. — E. O. Wilson

War reporter Lawrence Sheets's edgy memoir evokes exactly the fatalism, confusion, and centrifugal forces that suddenly broke up the Soviet Union two decades ago. Refreshingly free of faraway theorizing, this book focuses on what people actually saw and experienced in those years. — Hugh Pope

I wonder if Watson is in the relaxed state of mind he's in — Murray Walker

Standardized personality differences between the sexes are of this order, cultural creations to which each generation, male and female, is trained to conform. — Margaret Mead

Slavery stands as an affront to human dignity. — Allan Dare Pearce

My friends were thin, pretty, naturally bronzed and accessorized with bug-eyed sunglasses. They slurped vodka straight from the bottle while they drove. They roamed the streets in bikinis by day and by night, skimpy dresses short enough to bare their ass cheeks when they bent over. They pushed up their breasts and snorted coke in the bathrooms of clubs before grinding their crotches into strangers until last call. And when the night came to an end, they romped through the filthy, gum-stained streets barefoot because they were too hammered to feel the glass shards beneath their soles. The PB girls were wild, edgy, and dangerously carefree. — Maggie Young

Asking someone to repeat a phrase you'd not only heard very clearly but were also exceedingly angry about was around Defcon II in the lexicon of squabble. — Terry Pratchett

One of the downsides of working in philosophy is that it attracts a lot of people with mental-health problems. — Joseph Heath

Complaining and arguing will not help. We are fully concentrating on the game against the Czechs. — Oliver Kahn