Fortius Quotes & Sayings

Body image - what we're supposed to look like - is made so unattainable that all girls are put in this position of feeling inferior. That's a horrible thing. — Amy Heckerling

If you don't like my ocean don't fish in my sea
Stay out of my valley and let my mountain be. — Ma Rainey

("Becoming cultured" and "being adjusted to the social group" are taken almost as synonymous.) Either way, it follows that you can teach people anything; you can adapt them to anything if you use the right techniques of "socializing" or "communicating." The essence of "human nature" is to be pretty indefinitely malleable. "Man," as C. Wright Mills suggests, is what suits a particular type of society in a particular historical stage. This — Paul Goodman

I'm chasing a kind of language that can be unburdened by people's expectations. I think music is the primary model-how close can you get this language to be like music and communicate feeling at the base level in the same way a composition with no words communicates meaning? It might be impossible. Language is always burdened by thought. I'm just trying to get it so it can be like feeling. — Terrance Hayes

I have lots of favorite shows, but not reality! I don't like reality TV so much. I'm saddened by people who don't show respect to each other and to themselves. It's horrible. Unfortunately, that's demonstrated a lot on reality television. — Barbara Mandrell

I see no contradiction between my search and personal happiness. -BRIDA — Paulo Coelho

I found that when I was putting my own music out, with my Twitter feed as the pure marketing budget, I'm preaching to the choir. — Trent Reznor

Our country has the oldest tradition of storytelling, and this was much before writing stories even became a norm. — Ashwin Sanghi