Overpowering Speakers Quotes & Sayings

God's power supersedes any power. — Lailah Gifty Akita

It's a monster."
Her nose scrunches in disgust. "You mean it's deformed?"
"No. I mean it's huge."
"How huge?"
"Unnaturally huge."
"Like a porno dick?"
"Exactly. — Helena Hunting

Size me up and get goosebumps, boys. I'm the widowmaker and the slayer of jungles, the mean-eyed harbinger of desolation! I've ripped a catamount asunder and sprinkled his fragments in my stew; one screech from me makes vultures fly, one glance puts blisters on grizzly bears, devastation rides on my every breath! Where is that stately stag to stamp his hoof or rap his antlers to these proclamations! Where is the mangy lion what will lick the salt off my name! — Ron Hansen

I am no longer afraid of getting old. Indeed I can't believe I ever said anything so stupid. So childish. So offensive and arrogant.
But mainly, so very, very stupid. I desperately want to grow old. — Elizabeth Wein

The mercy of the West has been social revolution; the mercy of the East has been individual insight into the basic self/void. — Gary Snyder

The feedback women are getting at work is amazingly ineffective or vague. You need to signal to your boss or senior colleagues that you want honest feedback, and that you promise not to take it too personally. — Sylvia Ann Hewlett

I never judge, I just show. I am not saying, Do not do that. — Margarethe Von Trotta

When you're given the gift of truth, you spend a lot of time trying to tone it down because it is already offensive enough. — Shannon L. Alder

Suppose a nation in some distant region should take the Bible for their only law book, and every member should regulate his conduct by the precepts there exhibited. What a Utopia! What a paradise this region would be. — John Adams

We don't get fat because we overeat; we overeat because we're getting fat — Gary Taubes

I grew a love for helpless, defenseless things. People would give me lions and jaguars. I had cheetahs, monkeys. — Dick Dale