Legenot Quotes & Sayings

The rage was a good feeling, stronger and purer than the shame that followed, the fear and the sudden urge to run and hide, to deny, to pretend I did not know who I was and what the world would do to me. — Dorothy Allison

I was going as soon as the ball hit the bat, it was lucky that it was a chopper. I just ran and hoped to God I was safe. — Joey Gathright

I know that I shall have lost to the jungle if I take a weak moral standpoint or relax my mental punctiliousness. I have therefore come to a certain belief which is based on three powerful effective commandments: THOU SHALT BE ENTERTAINING AT ALL TIMES. THOU SHALT OBEY THY ARTISTIC CONSCIENCE AT ALL TIMES. THOU SHALT MAKE EACH FILM AS IF IT WERE THY LAST. — Ingmar Bergman

It was 1981. I was working on a novel. And I put that novel aside one day after I read a newspaper article. The story said there were 19 women still on the pension payroll who were Confederate war widows. They were women who very early in their lives had married very old men. — Allan Gurganus

Because you decided I couldn't take it!" I shout. "You kept the truth from me because you thought I couldn't handle it. You were so wrong! I can take it straight up! That's what hurts me the most. I'm not some fragile thing that needs to be treated like a glass house. It's humiliating and it just pisses me off that you pretend like I'm not strong. I get that you're a man...you feel the need to protect me. I get that you're afraid and my strength feels dangerous to you. And you know what? It should feel that way, because it is. It's power. — Elisa Marie Hopkins

It is to overlook the culture that has focused, down the centuries, on the business of repentance. — Roger Scruton

If rain is God crying, I think God is drunk and his girlfriend just slept with Zeus. — Chuck Klosterman

Environmental laws were not passed to protect our air and water, they were passed to get votes. — Frank Zappa

Tell me you want me even if you didn't have demon blood." Because I don't have demon blood and I still want you. — Cassandra Clare

He doesn't anger easily. This is good. (Takeshi)
Yes, I'm more of a simmer slowly until it boils over and ruins everything kind of man. (Acheron) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Ask a soldier what he believes in. He'll tell you God. Country. The patient hands of death
the ones he's wearing. — Ellen Hopkins

When then-New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer sued me in 2003 over my stewardship as a director of the New York Stock Exchange, the NYSE's legal expenses were more than $100 million, which made it perhaps the priciest litigation in the state's history. — Kenneth Langone