Exemplaristic Quotes & Sayings

Here's the thing: If you're so far left you actually believe that somebody owes you a job, citizenship and a heart transplant, you're mentally ill. If you're so far right that you actually believe that somebody who doesn't have a job and is not a citizen deserves to have their heart cut out and sold on eBay, and you get to keep 80 percent of the profit - you're mentally ill. — Christopher Titus

It's a human instinct to be known. — Natasha Leggero

Every harlot was a virgin once — William Blake

I was teaching live drawing in a community college and students started zoning in on the face and spending a couple of hours on that and then putting the rest of the body on the face only in the last hour. It didn't work to just tell them, 'Well, you're really not thinking of the body as a totality.' So in desperation I would put a drape over the model's head so they couldn't see it. They had to draw the body and then at the end of the session for an hour I would take the drape off just to try to reverse their procedure. — John Baldessari

People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Akiko Tsuruga ranks as one of the top organists around today. — Scott Yanow

Most human activities are predicated on the assumption that life goes on. If you take that premise away, what is there left? — Haruki Murakami

The straight line is ungodly. — Friedensreich Hundertwasser

Tonya had done a little lurking on social media. She knew that Courtney, Greg's real love, had killed herself. Truth of the matter was, ever since then, Greg had never been the same. — Nako

Didn't want to be a star, wanted just to play guitar in this cockamamie business. — George Harrison

A habit leads a man so gently in the beginning that he does not perceive he is led - with what silken threads and down what pleasant avenues it leads him! By and by, the soft silk threads become iron chains, and the pleasant avenues Avernus! — Thomas Bailey Aldrich

It figured that the one man that treated her like a woman was the one that made her wish she was a man so that she could kick his ass. — R.L. Mathewson

In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death. — Anne Frank

The strength and power and goodness of America has always been based on the strength and power and goodness of our communities, our families, our faiths. That is the bedrock of what makes America, America. In our best days, we can feel the vibrancy of America's communities, large and small. — Mitt Romney