Excitable A Lister Quotes & Sayings

we roar along the rust belts - - the great red spot - -
the polar vortex - - the caress of solar flares - -
ruffle the molten methane and ammonia oceans of me - -
the storm-riven non-surface of me and mine - -
that which you call skin - -
a threadbare term to describe where I stop and others begin - - — Yann Rousselot

Personal experience is the foundation of anything I write. What I leave up to the audience to decide is where fact ends and fiction begins. — Mark Baranowski

The heart-sick faintness of the hope delayed! — Walter Scott

He began to understand suddenly what friends were for: they reminded you that things weren't so bad after all. Reminded you never to stop laughing at yourself. — S.J. Kincaid

The essence of a free life is being able to choose the style of living you prefer free from exclusion and without the compulsion of conformity or law. — Eleanor Holmes Norton

I hate travelling and explorers. Yet here I am proposing to tell the story of my expeditions. — Claude Levi-Strauss

And I've just spent the last 48 hours falling in love with a man that is not only completely out of my league, I don't even play the same sport — Kristen Proby

After all, we humans are not just one thing, we are multiple things, all at once, and any man wearing a badge on his chest boasting one particular quality or value is a man who is hiding ten other qualities and values he didn't see fit to pin to his lapel. — Lenore Zion

The interesting thing about gay people is that you can't really put on a wedding without them. They're the ones who make your dress, and do the flowers and the catering. They've toiled in the wedding industry all these years but were never allowed to do it themselves. — David Sedaris

You're going to spend your life doing something; you might as well pay the price to get what you want. — John Hawkins

If any man at this day sincerely believes that a proper division of local from federal authority, or any part of the Constitution, forbids the Federal Government to control as to slavery in the federal territories, he is right to say so, and to enforce his position by all truthful evidence and fair argument which he can. But he has no right to mislead others, who have less access to history, and less leisure to study it, into the false belief that "our fathers who framed the Government under which we live" were of the same opinion - thus substituting falsehood and deception for truthful evidence and fair argument. — Abraham Lincoln

By seeing ourselves honestly, we have the capacity to understand others more deeply. — Helen LaKelly Hunt

We lost one child and we gained ten thousand children. — Kyle Petty

When I turned 11, we had to leave East Germany overnight because of the political orientation of my father. Now I was going to school in West Germany, which was American-occupied at that time. There in school, all children were required to learn English and not Russian. To learn Russian had been difficult, but English was impossible for me. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Disappointed, yes. Annoyed, yes. But I'm not really mad. — Colleen Hoover