Gammen I Storslett Quotes & Sayings

Soft feathers cannot make a cruel bird kind — Munia Khan

There are so many miserable people out there who have not fulfilled their dreams. I believe you should do something that you love. — John Tesh

The New York Times, baffled by Delaware's obstinacy, tried to argue the state into change in an 1867 editorial. If it had previously existed in [the convicted person's] bosom a spark of self-respect this exposure to public shame utterly extinguishes it. Without the hope that springs eternal in the human breast, without some desire to reform and become a good citizen, and the feeling that such a thing is possible, no criminal can ever return to honorable courses. The boy of eighteen who is whipped at New Castle [a Delaware whipping post] for larceny is in nine cases out of ten ruined. With his self-respect destroyed and the taunt and sneer of public disgrace branded upon his forehead, he feels himself lost and abandoned by his fellows. - QUOTED IN ROBERT GRAHAM CALDWELL, Red Hannah: Delaware's Whipping Post — Jon Ronson

There's some herb that's good for everybody, except for them that thinks they're sick when they ain't. — Sarah Orne Jewett

You never find yourself until you face the truth. — Pearl Bailey

You're too busy being you that you don't realize how utterly unprecedented you are. — John Green

Comedy teams are a real hard thing to do. That's why you don't see any of them. — Cheech Marin

It was the summer in America when the nausea returned, when the joking didn't stop, when the speculation and the theorizing and the hyperbole didn't stop, when the moral obligation to explain to one's children about adult life was abrogated in favor of maintaining in them every illusion about adult life, when the smallness of people was simply crushing, when some kind of demon had been unleashed in the nation and, on both sides, people wondered "Why are we so crazy?" when men and women alike, upon awakening in the morning, discovered that during the night, in a state of sleep that transported them beyond envy or loathing, they had dreamed of the brazenness of Bill Clinton. I myself dreamed of a mammoth banner, draped dadaistically like a Christo wrapping from one end of the White House to the other and bearing the legend A HUMAN BEING LIVES HERE. — Philip Roth

Every good story starts with a simple premise. This one begins with the notion of survival. The determination to live is both instinctive and ferocious. It often encourages compromise with evil. Only the Devil ever benefits from such a bargain. — Taona Dumisani Chiveneko

Every soil does not produce every material. — Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot

I'd love to have a fashion range; I've been dressed by the amazing Vivienne Westwood, and fashion is something I'm a huge fan of. — Jessie J.

The windows of my soul are made of one-way glass, don't bother looking into my eyes if there's something you want to know, just ask — Ani DiFranco