Lj Ross Quotes & Sayings

Americans are really obsessed with their teeth being white and straight, aren't they? I saw this little girl the other day with one of those whole head braces. Elastic all the way around! How traumatizing for a child to have to wear one of those! You look like a monster. — Kate Moss

How you play is what you win. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Hear that quiet, man?' he said. 'That quiet - just listen. There's your moral. — Tim O'Brien

She looks defeated. Beautiful and soft and damaged standing there before me partially clothed in the light of the moon beaming through the tall window. Beautiful, but defeated. That look in her eyes, it somehow latches onto my soul and all I want is for her to turn and walk away. Because I know that if she doesn't, if she presses me further with those soft lips and sad, vulnerable eyes that I'll succumb to the moment and either fuck her or kill her. — J.A. Redmerski

To-day is the parent of to-morrow. The present casts its shadow far into the future. — Emma Goldman

Some poems are like the Centaurs
a mingling of man and beast, and begotten of Ixion on a cloud. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I asked him once what he believed to be the basic flaw in the character of Germans, and he replied "obedience." When I consider the ghastly orders obeyed by underlings of Columbus, or of Aztec priests supervising human sacrifices, or of senile Chinese bureaucrats wishing to silence unarmed, peaceful protesters in Tiananmen Square only three years ago as I write, I have to wonder if obedience isn't the basic flaw in most of humankind. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

All this hurrying from place to place won't bring you any relief, for you're traveling in the company of your own emotions, followed by your troubles all the way. — Seneca.

If I were dead like Snow White and he kissed me like that, surely my heart would kick back to life. That I'd be the one to slay dragons for that kiss. — Tarryn Fisher

It is upsetting that many people don't seem to observe what's happening to the environment, what's happening in terms of global warming, the loss of habitats and wild things. — Joanne Woodward

Even if we are separated from people, and even if there is no other gift which we can give to them, we can surround them with the strength and the defence of our prayers. — William Barclay

How slim the line is between genius and insanity and between determination and stubbornness. — Richard Branson

I can't be No. 1 with an MVP trophy. I could be No. 1 with the championship ring and the championship trophy on my fireplace. — Jeff Kent

If absurdities could be eaten like pigs, you could immediately set up an absurdity farm and get much richer than a king! — Mehmet Murat Ildan