Otakon Quotes & Sayings

I just don't understand, if they see numbers [of CEO salaries]that represent people, how they can somehow skirt around that and morally justify taking or ruining those lives and leaving them with nothing. That, to me, is violent crime. It's certainly more violent than selling grams of pot to other adults. — Eddie Vedder

Outsourcing was the bogeyman of the '90s. Protectionists portrayed it as an evil that would take American jobs away. Yes, some jobs did go offshore as people feared, but it made the global economic pie grow bigger. — Vivek Wadhwa

Why is Anthony Amowitz using his pimp smile on you?"
"You're only calling him a pimp because he's here. At Marcie's."
"Yeah, so?"
"He's being nice." I elbowed her. "Smile back."
"Being nice? He's being horny. — Becca Fitzpatrick

Our lives are a mixture of different roles. Most of us are doing the best we can to find whatever the right balance is ... For me, that balance is family, work, and service. — Hillary Clinton

I don't like songs about wanting things. I like songs about letting go, saying goodbye. — Jasmine Warga

I have to reinvent myself. — Ted Kulongoski

I have asserted the right of Negroes to meet the violence of the Ku Klux Klan by armed self-defense - and have acted on it. It has always been an accepted right of Americans, as the history of our Western states proves, that where the law is unable, or unwilling, to enforce order, the citizens can, and must act in self-defense against lawless violence. — Robert F. Williams

A difference of taste in jokes, is a great strain on the affections. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I only mean, Bessy, there's good and bad in everything in this world; and as you felt the bad up here, I thought it was but fair you should know the bad down there. — Elizabeth Gaskell

We might be all alone in the world, en effet, but that doesn't mean we have to be lonely. — Aria Beth Sloss

I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul. — George Bernard Shaw

Second, always speak the truth without fear. — Charles R. Swindoll

History is not a map to be read, nor a path to be followed. It is a landscape of contours and textures, of colours and sounds. — Tom Lloyd