Historicorps Quotes & Sayings

This was our last night. We only had one curtain call, Bree. And I thought they were going to give us a standing ovation, but no-o-o-. Do you know why half the audience stood up?"
"To get a head start on the traffic," Bree said.
"To get a head start on the traffic," Antonia agreed in indignation. "I mean, here we are, dancing and singing our little guts out, and all those folks want to do is get to bed early. I ask you, whatever happened to common courtesy? Whatever happened to decent manners? Doesn't anyone care about craft anymore? And on top of that, it's not even nice. — Mary Stanton

If I were founding a university I would begin with a smoking room; next a dormitory; and then a decent reading room and a library. After that, if I still had more money that I couldn't use, I would hire a professor and get some text books. — Stephen Leacock

Bobby Darin was one of the first to take black musicians on the road with his band, and there were places that didn't want him to play, and he stood up to it. — Kevin Spacey

Any number of my former brothers felt they would make heroes of themselves in the Nation of Islam if they killed me ... I knew that no one would kill you quicker than Muslim if he felt that's what Allah wanted him to do. — Malcolm X

The thing about pawns," Emily said, almost to herself, "is if they reach the other end of the board, they become a queen. — Lauren Smith

I say Republicans aren't right all the time. Democrats aren't wrong all the time - now, maybe most of the time, but not all the time. — Mike Huckabee

You can also volunteer or freelance in certain fields to gain a feel for them and measure your response. — Kate White

I'm really a believer in being in situations that feel new and awkward and different. And I love that feeling of being in motion - that sense you find when you're traveling. — Doug Aitken

Butt fucking the American dream so you can buy cheap T-shirts at Old Navy. Isn't life beautiful? — Shane Kuhn

The better you are, the closer they watch. — Darwin Ortiz

In the final years of his life, when former Communist Party Chief Zhao Ziyang lived under house arrest, in Beijing, his aging friends resorted to donning white doctors' coats in order to slip past the guards stationed outside his home. — Evan Osnos

Coy Nature, (which remain'd, though aged grown,
A beauteous virgin still, enjoy'd by none,
Nor seen unveil'd by anyone),
When Harvey's violent passion she did see,
Began to tremble and to flee;
Took sanctuary, like Daphne, in a tree:
There Daphne's Lover stopped, and thought it much
The very leaves of her to touch:
But Harvey, our Apollo, stopp'd not so;
Into the Bark and Root he after her did go! — Abraham Cowley

Appealing to emotions, immediate gratification, and passivity of the American public is enabling a sicker society. — Melissa Cady

Relationships are a constant negotiation and balance. — Claire Danes