Imperishables Quotes & Sayings

...most people do not separate God from expectation. — Mette Jakobsen

If I can't dance, I don't care if my dances are ever done again! — Martha Graham

I think there's an unnatural amount of social pressure on women, particularly mothers, to conform to certain standards of behavior, particularly in regard to our children. — Jillian Medoff

Social Darwinism had continued to flourish in German. Together with Mendelian genetics, it was widely thought to provide a scientific basis for the eugenic 'Racial Hygiene' movement. — Jonathan Glover

During the course of many years I have observed that a great number of doctors, lawyers, and important businessmen make a habit of visiting a chess club during the late afternoon or evening to relax and find relief from the preoccupations of their work. — Jose Raul Capablanca

Teaching, real teaching, is - or ought to be - a messy business. — Harry Crews

Horror movies can be very interesting because they can deal with intangible subjects that are full of emotion. — Meg Tilly

Man is made of dirt - I saw him made. I am not made of dirt. Man is a museum of diseases, a home of impurities; he comes to-day and is gone tomorrow; he begins as dirt and departs as stench; I am of the aristocracy of the Imperishables. And man has the Moral Sense. You understand? He has the Moral Sense. That would seem to be difference enough between us, all by itself."
"I know your race. It is made up of sheep. It is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most noise. Sometimes the noisy handful is right, sometimes wrong; but no matter, the crowd follows it. — Mark Twain

That's the kind of TV I like to watch, where you just don't know what's going to happen. — Annie Parisse

Mr. Skip, if I knew I was going to live this long. I probably wouldn't have lived this long. — Skip Clark

We need to make investment to get the economy going again, to give the private sector the confidence. — Xavier Becerra

By the way," he said. "You know that little black thing that you carry around? It rings and beeps and stuff?" "My phone?" "Try using it. — Nick Wilgus

Everything I do is collaborative. It's just my way. I'm really very interested in how the other musicians perceive the song. — Cassandra Wilson

Religion is the reaction of human nature to its search for God. — Alfred North Whitehead

If I had to look at 'Now He Sings' ... from outside myself, I see it as a natural part of the growth of the jazz culture, which I've always been so happy - honored, really - to be a small part of. — Chick Corea

War: First day in the U.S. Army, the government placed a Bible in my left hand, a bayonet in the other. — Edward Abbey