Giddins Jazz Quotes & Sayings

Yet another gratuitous cruelty: the killer targets the most innocent, the people who would never steal food, lie, cheat, break the law, or betray a friend. It was a phenomenon that the Italian writer Primo Levi identified after emerging from Auschwitz, when he wrote that he and his fellow survivors never wanted to see one another again after the war because they had all done something of which they were ashamed. — Barbara Demick

A Republican in my state of Arkansas feels about as out of place as Michael Vick at the West Minister dog show. — Mike Huckabee

My daughter Karen was born in 1958, the year my first Paddington book came out, so she grew up with him. — Michael Bond

Pain is a huge gift. It can expand you like nothing else. If you can embrace it and sink into it, you'll get to the point where you can bend and transform your experience of it. Having some sort of creative outlet to do that is another gift. — Rachael Yamagata

We are but a speck in the Universe
Oh, but what a lucky speck to be ... — Kehinde Sonola

Patriarchy's chief institution is the family. It is both a mirror of and a connection with the larger society; a patriarchal unit within a patriarchal whole. — Kate Middleton

Someone once told me that every minute a murder occurs, so I don't want to waste your time, I know you want to go back to work. — Alfred Hitchcock

Americans being upright and forthright and honest and true to themselves is a very hard concept. — John Lydon

nub. Tori nearly came unglued and started rocking and trembling so hard, the bed shook beneath her. The fleeting caress of Sam's tongue stretched her body taut, stringing her nerve endings tighter than a barbed-wire fence. "Sam . . . please . . . I need . . . " "I know, babe. I know what you need." "I need it now . . . Please!" Tori thought she'd die if Sam didn't touch her again. She lifted her butt and felt his hands clamp around her hips, and then that wonderful magic feeling of his tongue on her flesh sent her soaring into a maelstrom of sensations too powerful to resist. Sam held on to Tori as he laved her with his tongue, milking her orgasm for several moments before finally moving — Anne Marie Novark

Jean-Claude gave a low theatrical bow, never taking his eyes from her. After you, my sweet. A lady should always walk before a gentleman, never behind. — Laurell K. Hamilton

Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it. — Edna O'Brien

There's nothing wrong with a male's point of view, obviously, but it's just a different way of telling a story. — Melanie Griffith

He got Alice, the way we did, or maybe even more so than us. He made her more confident, funnier, smarter. He brought out all the things that were there already and let her be fully herself, so she seemed to shine with this inner light. — Liane Moriarty

I was in a band in the '90s called Bikini Kill, and we were so freaked out about documentation then, and there was the whole thing, not just about the male gaze, but that people were going to misrepresent you ... a kind fear of the mainstream that a lot of us had. — Kathleen Hanna