Heart Not Being A Toy Quotes & Sayings

Walter had never liked cats. They'd seemed to him the sociopaths of the pet world, a species domesticated as an evil necessary for the control of rodents and subsequently fetishized the way unhappy countries fetishize their militaries, saluting the uniforms of killers as cat owners stroke their animals' lovely fur and forgive their claws and fangs. He'd never seen anything in a cat's face but simpering incuriosity and self-interest; you only had to tease one with a mouse-toy to see where it's true heart lay ... cats were all about using people — Jonathan Franzen

I have a big passion about civil rights for everyone - whoever is being downtrodden at the moment, it doesn't matter: racial discrimination or sexual orientation or gender. Whatever it is, I'm there. I think I was a born civil rights activist. I can't stand the smashing of a community. It's not fair and it's not right. — Pauley Perrette

My father was very interested in music, and when he and his brothers were young, they had a singing group that used to open for Sam Cooke. There was always music in our house, but there wasn't much art around. — Carrie Mae Weems

Whoever looks at love sees himself looking back at him. — Alper Kaya

I can't say I'm unhappy about it,' added the bard, 'I get along well enough with mice, and I've always been found of birds, but when you put the two together I'd just as soon avoid them. — Lloyd Alexander

Jewelry is something that has to do with emotion. That aspect of jewelry really interests me. — Ann Demeulemeester

Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.
— David Icke

Plants are shaped by cultivation and men by education.. We are born weak, we need strength; we are born totally unprovided, we need aid; we are born stupid, we need judgment. Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given us by education. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

A man-trained boy would have been badly bruised, for the fall was a good fifteen feet, but Mowgli fell as Baloo had taught him to fall, and landed on his feet. — Rudyard Kipling

Our thoughts are like roots which reach out in every direction into the cosmic ocean of formless energy, and these thought-roots set in motion vibrations like themselves and attract the affinities of our desires and ambitions. — Orison Swett Marden

What's the point if you make something that's not you, and you're successful? You have to perform it the rest of your life. — Gloria Estefan

I didn't know till then the stars, in flakes
of snow come down to fuck the earth, the lake. — D.M. Thomas

Clouds float in the same pattern only once. — Wayne Shorter

My father was an actor, and we have the most important theatre company in Montreal. — Gilles Duceppe

The desired effect is what you get when you improve your interplanetary funksmanship. — George Clinton