Patriarcales Quotes & Sayings

I've almost come to feel that it doesn't make much difference what you believe in - the thing that's important is a state of belief. It's much better to believe in nonsense than in nothing ... — Margaret Ayer Barnes

When he was small he held the label inside his pillowcase when he slept. Only I know that. I was not a sleeper. His hand in sleep searched to find it. He would take the label between thumb and forefinger and just move it slightly against itself, over and back, as if the smallest friction was sufficient, as if with that he knew he was still in the world. — Niall Williams

Haughty people seem to me to have, like the dwarfs, the stature of a child and the face of a man. — Joseph Joubert

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me. — Hunter S. Thompson

Marxism exists in nineteenth-century thought like a fish in water: that is, it is unable to breathe anywhere else. — FOUCAULT MICHEL

Just remember, somewhere, a little Chinese girl is warming up with your max. — Jim Conroy

I like to think that I represent myself as a strong woman, so to work with other strong women I find very inspiring. — Annabelle Wallis

Many readers share their stories with me and if one speaks to me (or if the same theme keeps coming at me), I will research it and decide if it would make a good book. But, straight down to it, people inspire me. — Ellen Hopkins

A movie is better than real life because in the movies only the bad guys die. Or you can pick the good movies where the bad guys die and only those. If you get tricked and a good person dies in the movie then you can rewrite it in your head so the good person lives and the part about death is superfluous. — Kathryn Erskine

Reading good books doesn't necessarily make one a good person - or a smarter, funnier, or more cultivated person, either. — Maureen Corrigan

What works for me is knowing the character in an emotional sense. I wish I was more logical but it doesn't work for me like that. I need quite a lot of time; it's why I always worry when I'm doing more than one thing at a time. I hope that some sort of magic will kick in. — Sally Hawkins

The Bible is the only force known to history that has freed enitre nations from corruption while simultaneously giving them political freedom. — Vishal Mangalwadi

I lived in a small city on the Mississippi River across from Iowa, so I didn't have a country upbringing, but in high school we would go drink kegs in cornfields. — Lissie

I believe the old boys' network is a powerful one. No one gives up power and privilege willingly, do they? — Quentin Bryce