Mazzinis Elkin Quotes & Sayings

In California, there was Atascadero State Hospital, constructed in 1954 at the cost to taxpayers of over $10 million (almost $110 million in today's money). Atascadero was a maximum-security psychiatric prison on the central coast where mentally disordered male lawbreakers [including homosexuals] from all over California were incarcerated. Inmates were treated at Atascadero by a variety of methods, including electroconvulsive therapy; lobotomy; sterilization, and hormone injections. Anectine was used often for 'behavior modification.' It was a muscle relaxant, which gave the person to whom it was administered the sensation of choking or drowning, while he received the message from the doctor that if he didn't change his behavior he would die (10). — Lillian Faderman

It doesn't matter who you come from. It matters who you become. — Suzanne Young

You know when you get into that thing where people want to discuss the relationship? I'd rather discuss what was on telly, avoid the issue, discuss anything other than the relationship. — Jarvis Cocker

Adventure time, Come on grab your friends, We'll go to a very distant land, Jake the dog, and Fin the human, The fun will never end, Its adventure Time! — R.K. Davenport

Fear conquers fear. This is how we Spartans do it, counterpoising to fear of death a greater fear: that of dishonor. Of exclusion from the pack. — Steven Pressfield

War can be fun for certain people. It's a magnet for sadists, losers, and angry dreamers. — Richard Engel

I always feel compelled to lend my voice to things I strongly believe in. — Keri Hilson

And the fact that Haiti was occupied for 19 years by the United States, from 1915 to 1934. — Edwidge Danticat

Human reason is like a drunken man on horseback; set it up on one side, and it tumbles over on the other — Martin Luther

A Tip from Bonnie Sue: God is the ultimate band director. Pay close attention, because you don't want to get ahead of him. Stick with him in perfect timing, and he will make a beautiful melody out of your life. — Janice Thompson

This may sound like a copout, but character and plot are equally important to me. I don't think the reader can engage uninteresting, compelling characters. Similarly, even interesting characters can't salvage a plot that's boring or that's riddled with holes. — Ed Duncan

How different our national perspective would be had Johnson, rather than Nixon, served from 1969 to 1973. — Robert Dallek

Never complain, never explain personal motto of — Kerry Packer

Maybe this all seems like a digression or even a case of protesting too much, but the point is that I have touched a breast and that I liked it. — Bennett Madison