Flagrantly Offensive Quotes & Sayings

The World Cup is not just a great global sporting event, it is also inscribed with much deeper cultural and political importance. — Martin Jacques

I was never given any hand-outs. I started at the bottom and was very good at finding people who knew more than me and learning from them. — Simon Cowell

At this point I'd take my chances with nearly anyone if they got me off the batting cage. Even if this was the Sparkly Vampire Rescue & World Domination League, I was still getting in the damn helicopter. — Dennis Liggio

There was a part of him (her) that dreamed, and he (she) was not sure if that part could ever retreat into an interminable silence. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint. — Robert Frost

Hatred and anger are the greatest poison to the happiness of a good mind. There is, in the very feeling of those passions, something harsh, jarring, and convulsive, something that tears and distracts the breast, and is altogether destructive of that composure and tranquillity of mind which is so necessary to happiness, and which is best promoted by the contrary passions of gratitude and love. — Adam Smith

But I'm a citizen of Texas and try to spend most of my time there. — Thomas Haden Church

Whenever one honestly defies a tradition, one becomes, in reality, the more responsible to it. — Glenn Gould

Topsoil is a place of digestion. It sucks and chews things into smaller pieces. When it's hungry, it turns grey and stony; when it's thirsty, it opens thousands of cracked lips. Subsoil is more skeletal: it doesn't digest. — Alice Oswald

Servitude, in many cases, is not forced upon by the masters, but a temptation of the servants. — Indro Montanelli

I think D.C. has always been very, very vibrant for food. Like Boston in a way. Boston and D.C. were really the two cities that were the most active with their local chefs and their local food scene. — Daniel Boulud

No comedian's wife thinks he's funny. The first few years of the marriage, maybe. I was funny as hell the first couple of years. — Tom Smothers

Love will turn you on your head. — Jon Jones