Puretoons Quotes & Sayings

He had a bad feeling that there was literally no one he could think of who wasn't in some very significant way a let-down. — Joe Dunthorne

Poem for My Love
How do we come to be here next to each other
in the night
Where are the stars that show us to our love
inevitable
Outside the leaves flame usual in darkness
and the rain
falls cool and blessed on the holy flesh
the black men waiting on the corner for
a womanly mirage
I am amazed by peace
It is this possibility of you
asleep
and breathing in the quiet air — June Jordan

If I teach you reading and writing, I'm warning you I've got to hit you on the head and call you bad names when you're stupid, because that's how you do teaching. — Louis De Bernieres

When the complexity of social patterning is reduced, so is individual freedom. — L.E. Modesitt Jr.

You know I got kicked out of high school and I used to go to Hendrix concerts. I used to go see Marvin Gaye and B.B. King and so here I am on television as an actor playing the part of this really sweet wholesome all American boy. The reality was I had a much different kind of teenage life. — David Cassidy

Are you intimidated by me? Because if you're intimidated by me, that's something you'll have to deal with. — Ving Rhames

At the very outset of the Christian life these two things should be very distinct with you
sin which has ruined you, and Christ who has saved you. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Stand up to ignorance, because if you don't, the ignorant will run free to spread ignorance like a disease. — Suzy Kassem

I hate that we look at women who choose not to run a country as having given up. I get angry that, when a woman decides to hold off on gunning for a promotion because she wants to have a baby, other women whisper that 'she's throwing away her potential.' That is when we're not supporting our own. Who are we to put such a limited definition on success? — Zosia Mamet

Fiction has to be plausible. All history has to do is happen. — Harry Turtledove

When we arrived in London, my sadness at leaving Paris was turned into despair. After my long stay in the French capital, huge, ponderous, massive London seemed to me as ugly a thing as man could contrive to make. — James Weldon Johnson