Incontractable Quotes & Sayings

The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day; he cannot afford to sustain the manliest relations to men; his labor would be depreciated in the market. He has no time to be anything but a machine. — Henry David Thoreau

The fish was a twelve-inch rainbow trout with a huge hump on its back. A hunchback trout. — Richard Brautigan

I'm not videotaping my life, but in a way I am trying to put certain things about myself on canvas. — Martin Scorsese

Often, writer's block will occur when I don't understand a character or his/her motivations. So I will make notes analysing characters. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

So, yes, I should have just surrendered, cinched the entitled scion her little pouch of entitlements, put in my calls to the name shufflers, done my duty. I thought about that moment later on. Maybe I got extratuned to the concept of bitchhood once I became Purdy's, though I must confess I've always found such usage of the term for female dogs distasteful. My mother was a second-wave feminist. I wasn't comfortable saying "cunt" until I was twenty-three, at which point, admittedly, I couldn't hold back for a time. — Sam Lipsyte

I've always thought that, in a sense, the more specific and sometimes even the smaller the world of a movie is, the more universal it is. — Fred Melamed

We are no longer citizens, we no longer have leaders. We're subjects, and we have rulers. — Edward Snowden