Patriarchical Quotes & Sayings

Tyra told me you two went at it for days over a flippin' fridge. Badasses are capable of and don't hesitate to throw down about a fridge. An IT geek does not care what kind of fridge you buy. An IT geek just thanks his lucky stars he's gettin' it regular. — Kristen Ashley

Life doesn't stop after losing someone, but it goes on without them differently. — Nizar Qabbani

Country's for dancing and crying. AC/DC is for cleaning your truck. — Jamie McGuire

In practice, don't just run basketball drills, teach the players how to play basketball. — Don Meyer

Healthy people have a natural skill of avoiding feverish eyes. — Albert Camus

When the colonizers spoke of indigenous women - ignoring their own patriarchy, which they doubtlessly considered normal, just like today - it was always with tears in their eyes. They only referred to the differences between these two patriarchical regimes - the French one and the Algerian one - at the cost of any mention of their far more considerable commonalities. — Christine Delphy

He held the sandwich in his right hand, a cigarette in his left, alternating between the two. When witness to this, I always hoped that in error he would take a bite of the cigarette or attempt to smoke the sandwich, but he never became confused. — Dean Koontz

When you're out here alone, contemplating all the things you didn't do and the person you didn't become ... if you think about it too long a hush seeps into the gray space, and the wind will hollow out your bones, and the purest kind of loneliness comes up from the inside to swallow you like an avalanche. — Sarah Ockler

Something that is not effectively communicated to electrical, electronics and wireless workers is that they are working with radiation and may develop radiation sickness. — Steven Magee

Several minutes passed. Several more. Nothing but silence and darkness.
"I think they're gone," Brenda whispered. She flicked on her torch.
"Hello, noses!" a hideous voice yelled from the room.
Then a bloody hand reached through the doorway and grabbed Thomas by the shirt. — James Dashner

All the sanguine guesswork of youth is there, and the silliness; all the novelty of being alive and impressed by the urgency of tremendous trivialities. — Siegfried Sassoon

Voodoo Girl
Her skin is white cloth,
and she's all sewn apart
and she has many colored pins
sticking out of her heart.
She has many different zombies
who are deeply in her trance.
She even has a zombie
who was originally from France.
But she knows she has a curse on her,
a curse she cannot win.
For if someone gets
too close to her,
the pins stick farther in. — Tim Burton

We have learned nothing. — Pablo Picasso

We have the librarians on our side. We have *justice* on our side. — Polly Shulman