Experiencetheregent Quotes & Sayings

All over the world, young males and females, schooled in the art of patriarchal thinking, are building an identity on a foundation that sees the will to do violence as the essential way to assert being. — Bell Hooks

You must resist the common urge toward the comforting narrative of divine law, toward fairy tales that imply some irrepressible justice. The enslaved were not bricks in your road, and their lives were not chapters in your redemptive history. They were people turned to fuel for the American machine. Enslavement was not destined to end, and it is wrong to claim our present circumstance - no matter how improved - as the redemption for the lives of people who never asked for the posthumous, untouchable glory of dying for their children. Our triumphs can never compensate for this. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

His fingers traced the curve of my shoulder softly, as his gaze fell. I gasped sharply. If he tried to kiss me, I'd slap the crap out of him. Bond or no bond. — Courtney Allison Moulton

How strange to remember typewriters, with their jammed keys and snarled ribbons and the smudgy carbon paper for copies. — Margaret Atwood

I like pin-up girls. I'm more of a boy than a girl. I'm not a lesbian, though - not before a sambuca anyway. — Amy Winehouse

I'm on the pursuit of awesomeness, excellence is the bare minimum. — Kanye West

Stardom can be very destructive - particularly if you believe in it. — Shelley Winters

They march into the future to the rhythm of the past. — Sara Sheridan

Everything seems an echo of something else. — Robert Penn Warren

The days passed, as they do, and life went on. — Kevin Brooks

Listening can heal wounds. — Sean Covey

I have always had a lot more trouble with my truths than with my deceits. — Mercedes McCambridge

When I think of cancer prevention, I think of cancer vaccines, but I think more broadly of all that we can do to prevent cancer. And part of that is coming up with a vaccine that will work like the vaccines we have for hepatitis B or flu or polio. — Laurie Glimcher

Within the realm of fiction, it is always tempting to set one's stories in a dystopian future, where all our misgivings about state power can be shown in full force. — Anne Fortier

The past is the prologue. — William Shakespeare