Extricating Def Quotes & Sayings

As children we are taught, "Sticks and stones may break my bones but words can never hurt me!" As adults we teach those same words to our own children while simultaneously we sue one another for defamation or verbal assault. Ah, the naked leading the blind. — Bryan Oftedahl

How often the rich like to play at being poor. A rather nasty game, I've always thought. — Lillian Hellman

Poor France, thy fine climate, rich vineyards, and the wishes of the learned avail nothing; thou art a destitute beggar, and not the powerful friend thou wert represented to me. — John James Audubon

If someone is being very cheeky, it can be quite fun to deal with that situation. — John Bercow

Writers, good ones, don't tell stories.
Characters show stories. — Robert Newton Peck

Whenever a government feels the need of promising peace and prosperity to its citizens by means of a proclamation, it is time to be on guard and expect the opposite. — Ivo Andric

CHRISTINE: I'd rather have a pile of mistakes than a handful of what ifs. — Bijou Hunter

What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. Without the possibility of choice a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing. — Archibald MacLeish

If I was with some other rappers who aren't as polished, or I was the only rapper, I don't think I would be where I'm, nor would I be rapping. They pushed me, we pushed each other on every record. — Schoolboy Q

Through love arises a sense of respect. And respect gives way to fear. But this fear is different from the fear we normally experience. Fear arising out of love is fear in its most divine form. If love brings people together, its fear that keeps them from falling apart. It is what makes them responsible to each other. In this sense love and fear are but the same thing. — Siddhartha Choudhary

Wayne is definitely one of the top five MCs to ever come out of the South. — RZA

Obstacles on our path are some of the tests of life. They make us stronger, better people and open up doors we had never imagined. — Mufti Ismail Menk

When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration. — Edward Steichen