Effete Snob Quotes & Sayings

What I'm trying to say is that I just want to know you. You don't have to be at your best. We can't all be at our best all the time. But, I just want to know you. — Nina LaCour

ETHNOMAGNETISM: The tendency of young people to live in emotionally demonstrative, more unrestrained ethnic neighborhoods: 'You wouldn't understand it there, mother-they hug where I live now.' — Douglas Coupland

Harsh reproof is like a violent storm, soon washed down the channel; but friendly admonitions, like a small shower, pierce deep, and bring forth better reformation. — Roger Chamberlain

Debbie shuffled back through her notes. "The president of the Owyhee Land and Irrigation Company was Whipple Phillips." "Whipple?" chuckled Xela. "Yep." "Don't name 'em like that anymore," said Roger. — Peter Clines

Barthes found the exit to this merry-go-round by reminding himself that "it is language which is assertive, not he." It is absurd, Barthes says, to try to flee from language's assertive nature by "add[ing] to each sentence some little phrase of uncertainty, — Maggie Nelson

Marc Bloch was born in 1886, fought in World War I, — Clive James

The Assassin the midst the deadly druid
Fury the shattering — Thomas E. Sniegoski

We must look for consistency. Where there is a want of it we must suspect deception. — Arthur Conan Doyle

Mr. D, wearing his leopard-skin jogging suit and rummaging through the refrigerator.
He looked up lazily. "Do you mind?"
Where's Chiron!" I shouted.
How rude." Mr. D took a swig from a jug of grape juice. "Is that how you say hello?"
Hello," I amended. "We're about to die! Where's Chiron? — Rick Riordan

I regard the whole of my life as having been lived in an anxious world. — Diana Trilling

My job is to be tech entrepreneur-in-residence at the White House. — Todd Park

Sometimes I am happy and sometimes not. I am, after all, a human being, you know. And I am glad that we are sometimes happy and sometimes not. You get your wisdom working by having different emotions. — Yoko Ono

People ask me a question, I'll give them my opinion. I never claimed to have all the answers. — Scott Fujita

Like it or not, liberation for women will be achieved only with the full co-operation of men. — Ita Buttrose

Nixon's subversion [of the consititution] consisted of: One presidental lie; one invocation of presidental privilege, and zero criminal offences. — William J. Clinton