Normally Aspirated Quotes & Sayings

I fall to the toilette of my hinder parts, my favourite stance when contemplating the ways of the world. — Angela Carter

Just because a person spends her time making a piece of something does not mean that she becomes that - a piece of something. — Leslie T. Chang

Imagination, where it is truly creative, is a faculty, and not a quality; it looks before and after, it gives the form that makes all the parts work together harmoniously toward a given end, its seat is in the higher reason, and it is efficient only as a servant of the will. Imagination, as it is too often misunderstood, is mere fantasy, the image-making power, common to all who have the gift of dreams. — James Russell Lowell

To speak seriously: the standards of "goodness" which are generally recognized by public opinion are not those which are calculated to make the world a happier place. This is due to a variety of causes, of which the chief is tradition, and the next most powerful is the unjust power of dominant classes. — Bertrand Russell

I have been a figure skater for so long that when I stopped that competitive day-to-day grind, I didn't know what to do with myself. I don't know how the world works outside of being barked at by a Ukrainian woman and watching my weight. — Johnny Weir

For all we become aware of when we slowly wake up, you can't help but pause and wonder what is still left unseen. — L.M. Fields

Go your own way. Question everything. Accept nothing. Accept no dogma, no can't. There are too many people walking around thinking they're sacred cows, and they're only half right — Rosie DiManno

There are not many places in the world where you can get to the beach in an hour, the desert in two hours and snowboarding or skiing in three hours. You can do all that in California. — Alex Pettyfer

In Europe, nothing is certain except death and welfare, and why let the former get in the way of the latter? — Mark Steyn

But the Bible was better than those other spinach-colored Classic books that spent most of their time flossing with long sentences about pastures and fake sunsets and white dudes named Spencer. I didn't hate on spinach, fake sunsets, or white dudes named Spencer, but you could just tell that whoever wrote the sentences in those books never imagined they'd be read by Grandma, Uncle Relle, LaVander Peeler, my cousins, or anyone I'd ever met. — Kiese Laymon

It's sort of pathetic to just play other people's songs all the time, even if you don't feel like you have the chops to write good music. — A.D. Aliwat

I'm not built for war. I'm built for entertainment. I'm built for jokes - either telling them or being the butt of them. — Josh Peck

Jean Louise had lost touch with nearly everyone she grew up with and did not wish particularly to rediscover the companions of her adolescence. Her schooldays were her most miserable days, she was unsentimental to the point of callousness about the women's college she had attended, nothing displeased her more than to be set in the middle of a group of people who played Remember Old So-and-So. — Harper Lee

You are treasure beyond any price. — Megan Whalen Turner

This book is dedicated to all of my friends who helped me get to where I am today - you know who you are ... and when I find you I am going to kill you. — Lewis Black