Permiteme Alabarte Quotes & Sayings

The whole purpose of the universe is unerringly aimed at one thing - you. — Walt Whitman

My priorities? The environment, the environment, the environment. — Menzies Campbell

Combine two words, Myth and History. What do you get? Mystery. — Ashwin Sanghi

A nerd will be a nerd all his life. — John Hughes

I live in a hive of darkness, and you are my mother, I told her. You are the mother of thousands. — Sue Monk Kidd

All real and wholesome enjoyments possible to people have been just as possible to them since first they were made of the earth as they are now; and they are possible to them chiefly in peace. To watch the corn grow, and the blossoms set; to draw hard breath over plowshare or spade; to read, to think, to love, to hope: these are the things that make people happy. — John Ruskin

That's the beauty of stupid questions. They don't deserve answers. -Daniel Hunter — Carly Phillips

There are symbolic dreams
dreams that symbolize some reality. Then there are symbolic realities
realities that symbolize a dream. Symbols are what you might call the honorary town councillors of the worm universe. In the worm universe, there is nothing unusual about a dairy cow seeking a pair of pliers. A cow is bound to get her pliers sometime. It has nothing to do with me. — Haruki Murakami

To an American, that which deprives him of his freedom he regards as injustice, and that which allows him to enjoy that freedom he regards as justice. The concept of justice is as central to the totality of his being as freedom is, and this is not surprising, since the motivating idea behind the American Declaration of Independence was the fervent desire for justice. — Ndabaningi Sithole

People who know the gospel's power will share it powerfully. — Jared C. Wilson

As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political poetry. — Kenneth Koch

You tried to drink the East River,Magnus said, and Alec saw, as if for the first time, that Magnus's clothes were soaking wet too, sticking to his body like a dark second skin. — Cassandra Clare

Why would I want to join an organization that would encourage people like myself to become members. — Groucho Marx

Leaning her silly, beautiful, drunken head on my shoulder, she said, "Oh, Esther, I don't want to be a feminist. I don't enjoy it. It's no fun."
"I know," I said. "I don't either." People think you decide to be a "radical," for God's sake, like deciding to be a librarian or a ship's chandler. You "make up your mind," you "commit yourself" (sounds like a mental hospital, doesn't it?).
I said Don't worry, we could be buried together and have engraved on our tombstone the awful truth, which some day somebody will understand:
WE WUZ PUSHED. — Joanna Russ

There is more to folklore research than fieldwork. This is why in all of my other upper-division courses I require a term paper involving original research. — Alan Dundes