Mortocracy Quotes & Sayings

I'm getting bored performing the same songs over and over. Songwriting comes and goes. — Sharon Van Etten

I don't think there's much a person could say about me. My gangster's never been on trial. — Beanie Sigel

There's a kind of power thing about the camera. I mean everyone knows you've got some edge. You're carrying some magic which does something to them. It fixes them in a way. — Diane Arbus

My dad went to jail for a long time. We lost everything, and the situation never resolved itself. My parents had this sort of passionate, disastrous desire for each other - not ideal to grow up in. — Natalia Kills

I had to work in one of the most beautiful ski resorts in the world for almost three weeks. Pity me. — David Duchovny

You want to be a superhero still, Grace? Well, every hero has a nemesis. And I'm yours. — Bree Despain

I really believed that anything at all was worth writing about if you cared about it enough, and that the best and only necessary justification for writing any particular story was that I cared about it. — Susan Orlean

What the Republican National Committee did to Ron Paul was the height of rudeness and stupidity for this reason: Why would you alienate an individual who has the ability to attract a new generation of voters, who are already skeptical of your institution but are willing to at least listen through the vehicle of this individual and the words that he is saying? Why would you alienate them, get on the floor and not let them speak? Not have his name go up on the board and see the number of electoral votes that he receives? This is crazy! — Michael Steele

The world will never be in any manner of order or tranquility until men are firmly convinced that conscience, honor and credit are all in one interest — Richard Steele

Kim Jong Il, incidentally, has been made head of the party and of the army, but the office of the presidency is still 'eternally' held by his adored and departed dad, who died on July 8, 1994, at 82. (The Kim is dead. Long live the Kim.) This makes North Korea the only state in the world with a dead president. What would be the right term for this? A necrocracy? A thanatocracy? A mortocracy? A mausolocracy? Anyway, grimly appropriate for a morbid system so many of whose children have died with grass in their mouths. — Christopher Hitchens

I'm a big fan of pops of color, but I thought I would take that to the next level and do a color-blocked Rolex. This watch is the perfect accessory whether you're wearing a tee and jeans or a well-tailored suit. — Brad Goreski

For though, I walk through the valley of shadows of Death, I will never fear. For You are in Me and I know You will never let me Go. — Jestoni Revealed

You're not really free until you know you're not competing with anyone else. This — Joel Osteen

I would like to be a part of a community of women, and help women be empowered, but I think I'm not necessarily political. I say that because I really hate politicians, so I don't fancy sitting around and thinking about them all the time. — Rickie Lee Jones