Hoofstock Quotes & Sayings

I am for everything starting
into full-blown perfection
at once. — Susan Edmonstone Ferrier

A good example of the modern world is the Eurotunnel. And mobile phones - I like them. — Jools Holland

You can cage their wings, you can't cage their spirit. — Sarvesh Jain

Everybody's got their poison, and mine is sugar. — Derrick Rose

I do want to direct, eventually. I don't know if it will be a short film or a music video or a feature, but I know that I want to at least try it and see. — Mary Elizabeth Winstead

Don't give people god's power. Yeah, they have opinions and stuff, but they ain't got no power to change your world unless you give it to 'em. Keep the power you got. You'll need it. I promise. — Daniel Black

There are people who embrace the Oxford comma and those who don't, and I'll just say this: never get between these people when drink has been taken. — Lynne Truss

You must have long-range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-range failures. — Charles Noble

Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another. — H.L. Mencken

We spend too much time teaching girls to worry about what boys think of them. But the reverse is not the case. We don't teach boys to care about being likable. We spend too much time telling girls that they cannot be angry or aggressive or tough, which is bad enough, but then we turn around and either praise or excuse men for the same reasons. All over the world, there are so many magazine articles and books telling women what to do, how to be and not to be, in order to attract or please men. There are far fewer guides for men about pleasing women. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

We like books that have a lot of dreck in them, matter which presents itself as not wholly relevant (or indeed, at all relevant) but which, carefully attended to, can supply a kind of "sense" of what is going on. This "sense" is not to be obtained by reading between the lines (for there is nothing there, in those white spaces) but by reading the lines themselves looking at them and so arriving at a feeling not of satisfaction exactly, that is too much to expect, but of having read them, of having "completed" them. — Donald Barthelme