Euroamerican Quotes & Sayings

There was soot and orphans everywhere, and gaslit cobbled streets full of fog and sinister gentlemen out for a night of illicit murder. It was a strict and unforgiving society; looking at a piano, eating too much butter, dancing with elan
the sour-faced Queen Victoria forbade all these things. And, it was also raining in the London of themdays
dirty grey slabs of rain that left everywhere shining and slippery. — Gideon Defoe

And the disappointment you face when you can't live up to your own expectations is even more tedious than the frequency with which you let yourself down. So — John C. Parkin

All the plants in my house are dead - I shot them last night. I was teasing them by watering them with ice cubes. — Steven Wright

Socialism , whether it's the 'soft tyranny' of the EuroAmerican management state or the murderously repressive forms taken by Hitler , Stalin , Mao , or Pol Pot, is all about disindividuation , a steady, relentless erasure of the individual differences among us, everything that makes us who we are. 'Everybody in, nobody out!' is the marching mantra of militant collectivized medicine, but it accurately describes all other aspects of collectivism , as well. No alternatives allowed, no choices, no individualism , no individuality , and ultimately, no individuation . — L. Neil Smith

I've lost friends over texting because I'm so bad at it. — Andre Holland

Most people are awestruck when they see Lady Gaga and Bette Midler, but then the queen comes in. — Jake Shimabukuro

It's been crazy. My life has totally changed. One week I was in school, hanging out with my friends and the next, I'm going to the L.A. premiere of one of the year's biggest movies. It's been a crazy experience. — Willow Shields

Tyler and me at the edge of the roof, the gun in my mouth, I'm wondering how clean this gun is. — Chuck Palahniuk

Examining love is like examining a stocking: if you hold it up to the light and stretch it to search for snags, any snags there are may well run and ruin the stocking. In fact, if I may fashion Coudert's law from Heisenberg's principle of indeterminacy, it is this: Love is not only changed by observation; it is changed for the worse. — Jo Coudert

One of the ideas I've clung to most of my life is that if I just try hard enough it will work out. — Meghan O'Rourke