Everymanish Quotes & Sayings

Man, if they played the commercials for 'Murderball' as much as they do for 'Hustle & Flow,' 'Murderball' would blow up! — Mark Zupan

The most important thing is for us to use the advantage we have properly and our success will be matchless — Sunday Adelaja

A condemned poor man, if steals to feed his starving kid, is slammed into prison. Contrast this to a rich man's crime. — Imran Khan

I cannot accept this invitation [to celebrate the bicentenial of the Constitution], for I do not believe that the meaning of the Constitution was forever 'fixed' at the Philadelphia Convention ... To the contrary, the government they devised was defective from the start. [Progressive] — Thurgood Marshall

Dirt is matter in the wrong place. — Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston

If the world were full of the self-seeking individuals found in economics textbooks, it would grind to a halt because we would be spending most of our time cheating, trying to catch the cheaters, and punishing the caught. The world works as it does only because people are not the totally self seeking agents that free-market economics believes them to be. We need to design an economic system that, while acknowledging that people are often selfish, exploits other human motives to the full and gets the best out of people. The likelihood is that, if we assume the worst about people, we will get the worst out of them. — Ha-Joon Chang

Every linguistic sign is located on two axes: the axis of simultaneity and that of succession. — Roman Jakobson

He nodded. "Someone really would get suspicious if they saw you roaming around. If I need you I'll give you a signal." "What signal?" "I'll imitate the scream of a terrified little girl," he said with a waggle of his eyebrows. He headed out the door. "Back in a minute. — Jim Butcher

I am above eighty years old ... I suppose I am about the only colored woman that goes about to speak for the rights of the colored women. I want to keep the thing stirring, now that the ice is cracked. — Sojourner Truth

I eat everything, that's a problem. I don't have discipline. My favorite dish is the Caribbean. Meat, rice, lots of grains. But I do like to do exercises. Lately, I've been having capoeira classes and lots of cardiovascular exercises, such as jogging and cycling. — Ricky Martin

There's no sight on earth more appealing than that of a woman making dinner for someone she loves. — Thomas Wolfe

You know ... Holding on isn't holding on. It's letting go. — Lindy Zart

I had been thinking for a while about how bored and tired I was of playing straight-down-the-middle everymanish characters that have what I call white guy problems. And I missed playing characters who lacked dignity and more importantly, lacked social skills. — Justin Long