Frontierer Quotes & Sayings

Every decision to better your life has to come from within, not from anyone else. — Karina Halle

When I write I know that I'm going to have to produce 40 percent more than I need. — George Saunders

The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids to cook and raise a garden and build fires. — Loretta Lynn

I am a poet; I am not a worker. I need to be free. — Alejandro Jodorowsky

Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her;
If you can bounce high, bounce for her too,
Till she cry Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover,
I must have you! — F Scott Fitzgerald

While a painting, even one that meets photographic standards of resemblance, is never more than the stating of an interpretation, a photograph is never less than the registering of an emanation (light waves reflected by objects)- a material vestigate of its subject in a way that no painting can be ... Having a photograph of Shakespeare would be like having a nail from the True Cross. — Susan Sontag

I'm more excited than I'll admit when my hand closes around the paperback. It's like I've been handed a secret, a piece of her soul that she just decided to entrust with me. That's the way with writers--every word on a page like a window into their private place, exposing a great deal of vulnerability when they allow others to see inside. Even fiction is made up of the truthful scars of the people telling the story. I should know. I tell the same stories myself every day. — Amy Matayo

What most Americans don't realize is a lot of the challenges we're struggling with today are the result of conscious housing policies. — Cory Booker

I had a mother that told me what to do all my life, and I traded that in for a wife. We got married two years out of high school which is not what you tell your kids to do, right? — Rick Scott

When I was a kid, I was really into 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' and 'Friday the 13th.' But as I got older and started working as an actor, I did not really get scared by horror movies as much, so I am not as into them anymore. — Simon Rex

Who on earth do the Americans suppose their allies are amongst the Arab world? Even Saudi Arabia they seem to regard as nothing more than a resevoir of oil and money. — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

I believe that the things we put numbers on are not necessarily the things that count the most. you can't measure the stuff that makes us human. — Lynda Mullaly Hunt

Television is populated with commitment-phobes. — Rob Lowe

Ribbentrop brushed aside the Jewish extermination events. He said that in the long view, historically, the Jews' extermination would always be a blot on German history, but that it was in a way attributable to the fact that Hitler had lost his sense of proportion and, because he was losing the war, went "wild" on the subject of the Jews. But the big historical issue was not that Jews had been exterminated but that Germany had really been oppressed and never given a chance. — Leon Goldensohn