Professes Define Quotes & Sayings

I am still in shock and awe at being fired. — Peter Arnett

Mum and I were delighted to find out we were descended from 'bog-trotters.' — Jasmine Guinness

Through reproductive technology, postmodernist art dispenses with the aura. The fiction of the creating subject gives way to a frank confiscation, quotation, excerptation, accumulation, and repetition of already existing images. Notions of originality, authenticity, and presence ... are undermined. — Douglas Crimp

Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools. — Benjamin Disraeli

Anybody who ever built an empire, or changed the world, sat where you are now. And it's *because* they sat there that they were able to do it. — Ryan Bingham

He smiled, a lazy curve of full lips that reminded her keenly of how those sensual lips had felt moving against hers. He leaned toward her, his voice meant for her ears alone. "Because your family and guests would be quite distressed to discover you had deceived them into believing you were married. — Debra Dier

I need to be allowed to make my own decisions and mistakes, take leaps - and fall - without receiving too much help, because it's what I'll be doing for the rest of my life. — Adora Svitak

... economists recognize that, other things equal, cuts in tax rates reduce tax revenues in percentage terms by less than the tax-rate reductions. Similarly, tax-rate increases do not raise tax revenues by as much in percentage terms as the tax-rate increases. This is true because changes in marginal tax rates alter taxpayer behavior and thus affect taxable income. — Campbell R. McConnell

With his final blow delivered, he pulls me up toward him, first by my hips, and then by my hair. Groping my breasts and kissing me, he is full of congratulations.
'Well done, Megan, you took your punishment well. Now it's time for your reward. — Felicity Brandon

So, blind to Someone I must be. — Walter De La Mare

Is it possible not to ever know your type-not to even know you have a type-until quite suddenly you do? — Jennifer E. Smith

My painting does not come from the easel. — Jackson Pollock