Oikophobia Is The Fear Quotes & Sayings

For a hundred years, the owners screwed the players. For 25 years, the players have screwed the owners-they've got 75 years to go. — Jim Bouton

As if I would EVER give birth. I suppose a well-mannered little six-year-old would be all right, but they simply don't COME that way. You have to TRAIN them. Too tiresome. I can understand your anguish. — Meg Cabot

This was a vagrant of sixty-five, who was going to prison for not playing the flute; or, in other words, for begging in the streets, and doing noting for his livelihood. In the next cell, was another man, who was going to the same prison for hawking tin saucepans without a licence; thereby doing something for his living, in defiance of the Stamp-office. — Charles Dickens

When you're young, it's so easy to get bull-dozed. — Christina Aguilera

Never name the well from which you will not drink. — Marion Zimmer Bradley

Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord: and thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment. And the second commandment is like it: you shall love your neighbor as yourself. There is no other commandment greater than these. — Anonymous

If you detect something mindless about American education, it's because the mind has been taken out of it. Only visible behavior counts. — Samuel L. Blumenfeld

Fie these gods! What beings are these who would play so cruelly with the sensibilities of rational, conscientious mortals? — R.A. Salvatore

All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business. — Eddie Bernice Johnson

And many a day's hours were like that.
As if someone fashioned my likeness somewhere
in order to torment it slowly with needles.
I felt each sharp prick of his playing,
and it was: as if a rain fell on me
in which all things change. — Rainer Maria Rilke

One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories. — Jean De La Bruyere

When humor works, it works because it's clarifying what people already feel. It has to come from someplace real. — Tina Fey

He couldn't make the thought go anywhere, and soon zoned out into watching the television screen. It showed a crazy-haired old gent tramping around an undistinguished patch of countryside. He couldn't remember selecting the channel, and with the sound off it really wasn't very interesting. Was it worth turning the sound up? Probably not. It increasingly seemed to him that television was being created for someone else. He was welcome to watch it, of course, but it was not he whom the creators had in mind.
("Maybe Next Time") — Michael Marshall Smith

I stared back at him, trying to think of a way to explain how I'd eradicated the word "want" from my vocabulary long ago and replaced it with "need." It made life so much easier that way, blowing away all the unnecessary and distracting clutter from a life of purpose, much like I imagined a storm sweeping away anything not strong enough to withstand the struggle. — Karen White