Facecity Quotes & Sayings

We're always just telling stories, and stories are always just approximations of the truth. It's never the truth exactly. — Brit Marling

Other children would be sent to England for school and they would come back to form an elite class." Next to him, Marjorie shifted her weight, and Marcus tried not to look at her. It was the way most people lived their lives, on upper levels, not stopping to peer underneath. — Yaa Gyasi

Ten thousand people wrote letters to the governor of Utah, protesting the verdict, but Joe Hill was executed by a firing squad. Before he died he wrote to Bill Haywood, another IWW leader, "Don't waste any time in mourning. Organize." Socialism, — Howard Zinn

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair. — Charles Baudelaire

We will talk about cooperation to destroy the disease as soon as we can. — Thaksin Shinawatra

My frustration has always been that I'm a Christian, but I don't buy into, never have bought into, the belief that Jesus and God are these men who just dictate that this is how you have to live your life or you are going to burn in hell. — Art Alexakis

The only people discussing "race" with any insight and courage are loud middle-aged white men who romanticize the Kennedys and Motown, well-read open-minded white kids like the tie-dyed familiar sitting next to me in the Free Tibet and Boba Fett T-shirt, a few freelance journalists in Detroit, and the American hikikomori who sit in their basements pounding away at their keyboards composing measured and well-thought-out responses to the endless torrent of racist online commentary. — Paul Beatty

Shit, it's even getting me a little got. Beside Shayla, Lacey is trying to suck the plastic of her rent-a-dick — S.L. Jennings

Oh, America! I could never leave you! You're like my dog, dumb as a post but you make me laugh! — Bill Maher

Different people remember things differently, and you'll not get any two people to remember anything the same, whether they were there or not. — Neil Gaiman

What any writer hopes for is that the reader will stick with you to the end of the contract and that there is a level of submission on the reader's part. — Hanya Yanagihara