Ethnographically Modern Quotes & Sayings

How did the Prince Charming of my childhood turn out to be such a crushing disappointment? Maybe he wasn't Prince Charming in the first place. — Paige Toon

I think I tried to separate indoors and out. And so when he beat me indoors, I did not see that as letting anybody down, I saw it as a good head to head competition, and so it was. It was fine. — Ralph Boston

I am a princess. All girls are. Even if they live in tiny old attics. Even if they dress in rags, even if they aren't pretty, or smart, or young. They're still princesses. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

[Rogan] "I've been watching you, and you're more confident and decisive than any woman I've ever known. There's no pretense to you. No concern that what you're doing is the wrong thing, or that you're not doing it right."
"And you don't like those traits in a woman?"
"I do. I didn't know that until I found them. — Natalie J. Damschroder

If there was two birds sitting on a fence, he would bet you which one would fly first. — Mark Twain

Wasn't he approaching Ricardo Montalban? Probably because there were more interesting things in heaven than Ricardo Montalban. — B.J. Novak

The South Pacific is not a paradise, in the sense that Eden wasn't either. There are always apples and snakes. But it is a wonderful place to live. The green vales of Tahiti, the hills of Guadalcanal, the towering peaks about Wau, and the noonday brilliance of Rabaul have enchanted many white travelers who have stayed on for many years and built happy lives. Often on a cool night when the beer was plentiful and the stories alluring, we have envied the men and women of the South Pacific — James A. Michener

I play guitar, piano, bass and percussion. — Teena Marie

Two things in America are astonishing: the changeableness of most human behavior and the strange stability of certain principles. Men are constantly on the move, but the spirit of humanity seems almost unmoved. — Alexis De Tocqueville