Prizing Our Natural Differences Quotes & Sayings

There's a great sense of achievement, testosterone, fun, being able to live out your masculinity when you play an action role or an action-adventure or a real tough-guy role. — Gerard Butler

I like a man who comes prepared. (Nick) — Marshall Thornton

When you live in the shadow of insanity, the appearance of another mind that thinks and talks as yours does is something close to a blessed event. — Robert M. Pirsig

But be warned, oh seeker of knowledge, of the thicket of opinions and of arguing about words. — Hermann Hesse

The loveliest hair is nothing, if the wearer is incapable of a grace. — Leigh Hunt

Death peeked around corners; it winked at her in the mirror then vanished; it hummed along with the radio and then faded away. It wheedled into her mind and her words, leaving a humid vapor around her heart and a thick fuzzy taste on her tongue. — Brandy Heineman

What you really value is what you miss, not what you have. — Jorge Luis Borges

I live my life out loud. Turn down the radio and you'll miss out on the true beauty of the song. — Shantaye Brown

Most of the reasons for late-term abortions have to do with severe fetal deformities, but when I found out that dwarfism was also a reason for late-term abortions that was tough. I did a book on dwarfs and know a lot of them, and that was a shock. That's a decision I could not feel comfortable with. — John H Richardson

I wrote a piece from North Korea called Visit to a Small Planet which is a line I stole from a play of Gore Vidal's, because it did seem to me as if I had left this planet completely to go on this visit to the northern part of the Korean Peninsula, and it was as if coming back from another spatial body altogether. — Christopher Hitchens

It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. — Ernest Hemingway,

Most assuredly that spirit of envious rivalry and depreciating criticism in which many English travellers have written, is greatly to be deprecated, no less than the tone of servile adulation which some writers have adopted; but our American neighbours must recollect that they provoked both the virulent spirit and the hostile caricature by the way in which some of their most popular writers of travels have led an ungenerous onslaught against our institutions and people, and the bitter tone in which their newspaper press, headed by the Tribune, indulges towards — Isabella L. Bird

You are still a spoiled rotten brat, Richie," Seth said to Vegas, with no emotion on his face. "But I'm not going to let anyone hurt you ... — Charlie Fey

The rise of King Crimson was so fast that, to me, it felt as if it was going out of control. And it was going so fast that I couldn't keep up with what was happening. — Michael Giles

I certainly am the first to acknowledge where I don't have strengths, but I think I'm pretty good at acknowledging where I do. — Diane Nelson