Folklife Seattle Quotes & Sayings

Forms of expression that unnecessarily specify gender are widely regarded as sexist. In technical writing, sexist usage is easy to avoid. — Justin Zobel

The ground must be a general's best friend, or it becomes his worst enemy. — Joe Abercrombie

that you didn't know what to do except smash your face into hers, back when kissing was not a signpost along the way but rather the destination itself. — Nathan Hill

Art comes from everywhere. It's your response to your surroundings. — Damien Hirst

I once heard that when fear takes possession of the heart of a person, it diminishes them — Chigozie Obioma

I had never really wanted to be famous. Everyone is supposed to want to be rich and famous, but as a boy I never knew what rich was, and the first view I had of famous made me leery. — Alan Alda

I feel my heart break to see a nation ripped apart by it's own greatest strength - it's diversity. — Melissa Etheridge

I imagine that some people spend years allowing the pressure to build up inside them without even noticing, and then one day some tiny incident triggers a crisis. Then they say: "I've had enough, I don't want this anymore." Some commit suicide. Others get divorced. Some go to poor parts of Africa to try to save the world. But I know myself. I know that my only reaction will be to repress my feelings until a cancer starts eating me up inside. Because I do actually believe that many illnesses are the result of repressed emotions. — Paulo Coelho

Rick Rubin's undulating face hair is just as famous as his body of work. In homage to the yogis he read about as a boy on Long Island, Rubin hasn't shaved since he was 23. It's long been his registered trademark. — Stephen Rodrick

The suppression of women's rights began with the suppression of women's rites. — Merlin Stone

Europeans were always trying to stop the outflow. Hernando de Soto had to post guards to keep his men and women from defecting to Native societies. The Pilgrims so feared Indianization that they made it a crime for men to wear long hair. "People who did run away to the Indians might expect very extreme punishments, even up to the death penalty," Karen Kupperman tells us, if caught by whites.49 Nonetheless, right up to the end of independent Native nationhood in 1890, whites continued to defect, and whites who lived an Indian lifestyle, such as Daniel Boone, became cultural heroes in white society. — James W. Loewen

I'm a lot more self-confident than I used to be. To some extent I owe that to my children and my husband. — Claudia Schiffer