Lumpen Proletariat Quotes & Sayings

Some of us are born with a weakness for music. As a baby, music would stop whatever thought I was having. If I was worried, it would stop me worrying; if I was crying, it would stop me crying. Music was a healing thing for me. — Andrea Bocelli

There would be no accumulation of strength inside
if the choices that you make
did not require disipline and intention. — Gary Zukav

If I'm right, the only reason our species is still around is because of our friendship with the canines. — Bruce Cameron

Times like this, I don't wish for ignorance. I look around and I see the bloated ignorance of the lumpen proletariat: roly-poly, sausage-fingered, ginger-topped fathers of at least two illegitimate children trying to massage the asses of waiflike, peroxide-scarred students who are themselves trying to navigate adulthood with their new-found freedom from outdated parenting. — Ayize Jama-Everett

I feel sometimes and in some ways like Linda Romanoli and Monica Velour; I feel marginalized because I'm in my fifties. If you went online and you look at some of the blogs, which one can do on a lonely night, it's pretty startling what people will say about you just because you're in your fifties. — Kim Cattrall

Baseball is a game of failure. There are plenty of opportunities to be down, or to feel sorry for yourself, or to be upset at somebody or upset at yourself. — Mark Teixeira

If I told what I knew about his relationship with Oswald, he might spend the rest of his career freezing his ass off in Fargo. — Stephen King

All art worthy of the name is religious. — Henri Matisse

Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off a portion of one's being, but by integration of the contraries. — C. G. Jung

I'm too diplomatic. I tend to edit my mind before I speak - it can be incredibly draining. — Erin O'Connor

All flowers talk to me and so do hundreds of little living things in the woods. I learn what I know by watching and loving everything. — George Washington Carver

Why must man not marry?" "He cannot marry. He cannot marry," he said angrily. "If he is to lose everything, he should not place himself in a position to lose that. He should not place himself in a position to lose. He should find things he cannot lose. — Ernest Hemingway,

There is no justice, and great harm, in diminishing the whole array of future opportunity to save a few people now from a regrettable fate. — Will Wilkinson

Nobody would take checks from Indians, nobody would give them any credit, and nobody would let them drink in the bars. There was a rudeness, a brusqueness, with which the Indians were treated constantly. At a very young age, that had entered my consciousness. — James Welch

We are so arrogant, we forget that we are not the reason for evolution, we are not the point of evolution. We are part of evolution. Unfortunately, we believe that we've been created to dominate the planet, to dominate nature. Ain't true. — Ted Danson

I spent time in, like, criminal courts, and covering murder trials for papers. — Kurt Loder