Meilland Rosiers Quotes & Sayings

Those whose eyes twenty-five and more years before had seen "the glory of the coming of the Lord," saw in every present hindrance or help a dark fatalism bound to bring all things right in His own good time. The mass of those to whom slavery was a dim recollection of childhood found the world a puzzling thing: it asked little of them, and they answered with little, and yet it ridiculed their offering. Such a paradox they could not understand, and therefore sank into listless indifference, or shiftlessness, or reckless bravado. There were, however, some - such as Josie, Jim, and Ben - to whom War, Hell, and Slavery were but childhood tales, whose young appetites had been whetted to an edge by school and story and half-awakened thought. Ill could they be content, born without and beyond the World. And their weak wings beat against their barriers, - barriers of caste, of youth, of life; at last, in dangerous moments, against everything that opposed even a whim. — W.E.B. Du Bois

Gay culture is surviving and thriving. Some activists believe the recent rise in homophobic violence might be a gauge of the success of positive gay images. — Lance Loud

I don't believe that crime, danger and poverty make for good art. That's bullshit. — David Byrne

Everyone assumed it had to be some sort of biography, because if you are a woman and use yourself as a character, it has to be some sort of confessional, whereas if you're a man, you're actually doing some post-modern play on the novel, some critique on identity with lots of references to Foucault. — Jeanette Winterson

We call our rich relatives the kin we love to touch — Eddie Cantor

Your soul was like a network of spittle. — Patti Smith

My daughter genuinely asked me to hand her the basketball bat. I might be failing as a father. — Greg Behrendt

The only time people turned to watch her go by was when she hurtled past them as she fell. — Cassandra Clare

It is difficult to express in words the feelings of happiness and pride which fill me. — Gherman Titov

More often than not, a C.E.O is merely a puppet whose strings are pulled by a board of directors. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Everything good or bad that has occurred in my life has been predictable and inevitable, especially the choices and actions that have made sure I am now utterly alone. — Lucia Berlin

Hospitals and jails and whores: these are the universities of life. I've got several degrees. Call me Mr. — Charles Bukowski