Factically Quotes & Sayings

In our culture, the professional, and largely white, middle class is taken as a social norm - a bland and neutral mainstream - from which every other group or class is ultimately a kind of deviation. — Barbara Ehrenreich

I don't have all that great an awareness of how people see me in life. I don't find myself thinking about it a lot. — Anjelica Huston

It's hard to sing really well when you're playing an instrument, but it'd be great to try and sing really well and have vocal effects and one drummer on a real drum-kit, and one on an electronic kit. — Jay Watson

Publicity can be terrible. But only if you don't have any. — Jane Russell

The high cost of living is a minor problem when compared to the cost of high living. — Mardy Grothe

Not according to your definition. It appears Andromeda has taken a vow of celibacy." Naasir groaned. "I think I should jump off into traffic. It'd be less painful than such torture. — Nalini Singh

I get a lot of emails from entrepreneurs. The best ones are short, to the point and include some question and/or the product — Jason Calacanis

We're not at the point of trying to stop global warming; it's too late for that. We're trying to keep it from becoming a complete and utter calamity — Bill McKibben

Aim for the stars, and afterward, pass them. — Matshona Dhliwayo

The air of completeness and superiority with which she walked at my side, and the air of youthfulness and submission with which I walked at hers, made a contrast that I strongly felt. It would have rankled in me more than it did, if I had not regarded myself as eliciting it by being so set apart for her and assigned to her. — Charles Dickens

What is a star? Is stardom a kind of suspended adulthood? Is it a place beyond good and evil? Is a star a person you need to believe in--a daredevil, a risk-taker, a person who goes close to the edge without falling? — Kim Gordon

There's a way of doing it!" Hermione said crossly. "There just has to be!" She seemed to be taking the library's lack of useful information on the subject as a personal insult; it had never failed her before. — J.K. Rowling

I am never so happy aswhen I am broke, and lately I have been happy all the time. - Mehitabel the Cat — Don Marquis

Craving a physical connection, I slide my finger along the back of Rachel's hand. She's asleep. Has been for a while. Curled in the fetal position in the middle of my bed, Rachel wears the mask of a ravaged person. Somehow, I missed the signs: dark circles under her eyes, the clothes that once fit perfectly now hang, her skin so pale it's translucent. — Katie McGarry