Etikete Quotes & Sayings

How love the limb-loosener sweeps me away — Sappho

My dad was always snoozing on the couch, like Dagwood Bumstead. He was a lazy motherfucker. God bless him. He was always working on some kind of get-rich-quick scheme. This is what my dad was like: I'd say, Hey, Dad, we studied penguins today in school. He'd say, Yeah? I'm a penguin fucker from way back. Dad, I saw a giraffe at the zoo today. Yeah? I'm a giraffe fucker from way back. That's my dad. My dad was a giraffe fucker. — James Ellroy

As son of a Republican president, Dwight D. Eisenhower, it is automatically expected by many that I am a Republican. For 50 years, through the election of 2000, I was. — John Eisenhower

I want to play Nightwing real bad. I worked with [Arrow creator] Greg Berlanti a while ago on a show called Everwood and jokingly I tweeted him saying, 'Hey, let me come play Nightwing for a couple episodes.' And somebody wrote an article about it, so I was like, let's make it happen, but I haven't heard anything about it yet. — Steven R. McQueen

Art ... must do something more than give pleasure: it should relate to our own life so as to increase our energy of spirit. — Kenneth Clark

Man is at the nadir of his stregth when the Earth, the seas, the mountains are not in him, for without them his soul is unsourced, and he has no images by which to abide. — Edward Dahlberg

Grief loves the hollow; all it wants is to hear its own echo. — Hisham Matar

Healthy surrender means allowing yourself to "be" rather than being in a constant state of want. — Bryant McGill

When I first thought of the idea for 'Sweet Valley High,' I loved the idea of high school as microcosm of the real world. And what I really liked was how it moved things on from 'Sleeping Beauty'-esque romance novels where the girl had to wait for the hero. This would be girl-driven, very different, I decided - and indeed it is. — Francine Pascal

And the boy whose temper seemed tethered to the air itself ... they didn't know what to make of him. — Victoria Schwab

There are worse fates, my lord. A title, land, a wife ... if you can't make something of that, there is indeed no hope for you.
-Morgan — Lisa Kleypas

The thing that upsets me is the ubiquitous use of reward technology, which uses our evolutionary biology against us. — Beeban Kidron

To fear to face an issue to believe that the worst is true.
Atlas Shrugged — Ayn Rand

Without restoring an ethos of social responsibility, there can be no meaningful and sustained economic recovery. — Jeffrey Sachs