Estandartes Quotes & Sayings

A good writer can fake being an expert in anything - even men's underwear. — Greg Dybec

It is only unimaginative persons who can be really astonished. The imagination can always outrun the possible and actual sights and sounds of the world ... — Sarah Orne Jewett

The arbitrary character of patriarchal ascriptions of temperament and role has little effect upon their power over us. Nor do the mutually exclusive, contradictory, and polar qualities of the categories "masculine" and "feminine" imposed upon human personality give rise to sufficiently serious question among us. Under their aegis each personality becomes little more, and often less than half, of its human potential. Politically, the fact that each group exhibits a circumscribed but complementary personality and range of activity is of secondary importance to the fact that each represents a status or power division. In the matter of conformity patriarchy is a governing ideology without peer; it is probably that no other system has ever exercised such a complete control over its subjects. — Kate Millett

This half century of research unequivocally supported the alternative hypothesis of obesity. It established that the relevant energy balance isn't between the calories we consume and the calories we expend, but between the calories - in the form of free fatty acids, glucose, and glycerol - passing in and out of the fat cells. If more and more fatty acids are fixed in the fat tissue than are released from it, obesity will result. — Gary Taubes

Well-gotten wealth may lose itself, but the ill-gotten loses its master also. — Miguel De Cervantes

Don't try to comfort others try be comfortable with yourself ;) — Akshay Dubey

Mother's Day is a torment if your mother is dead. Valentine's Day is a torment if you don't got one. And at some point in our lives, we will be tormented by Valentine's Day even if we're relatively lucky in love. — Dan Savage

I've had so many little ideas I've written down here and there. Some ideas I've got reams of notes for. — Bryan Lee O'Malley

In a way you can feel that the poet actually is looking over your shoulder, and you say to yourself, now, how would this go for him? Would this do or not? — Robert Fitzgerald