Quirky Fashion Quotes & Sayings

At this point I feel I would be remiss to not mention the prevalence of a specific kind of person who enters the field of book publishing. This is the English lit major who never should have left academia, a genius who has read all of V.S. Naipaul but can't photocopy title pages right side up. This person is very thin, possibly vegan, probably Ivy League. He or she feels as if answering the phone in a chipper voice is a form of legalized prostitution. He or she has a single quirky fashion piece, usually red or black, and waxes poetic about typewriters and the British, having never truly known either. Regardless of sex, they all want to be David Foster Wallace when they grow up. — Sloane Crosley

To be sure, boxing has always been, at best, a shady and sometimes cutthroat business, buttressed by hype and tomfoolery rivalling, at times, that of carnival circuses. — Dan Hill

Which, then, brings us closer to what we want to communicate: saying what we intend, or trying to say the opposite? — Jonathan Safran Foer

I wanted to be baptized in his skin, purified in his love. I was a sinner, or worse. — Stylo Fantome

It is a grave error for historians of literature to interpret the national spirit of the age in an oversimplified manner, ignoring the complexity of various cultural and life processes. Instead of using their imagination, they try to read the future by observing the hands of a clock which is still busy measuring the past. — Mieczyslaw Jastrun

Fuck, I thought to myself, this is great. I fucking love this. It's nerve-wracking and exciting and I fucking love it. — Chris Kyle

Must every action - every word and thought - recall Alena? Swimming, currents, beaches, exhibitions, artists, parties. How long until my bodily presence had half the substance her absence did? — Rachel Pastan

In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento

There's nothing better than a party that turns into a death trap. — Russell T. Davies

The chief purpose of a union is to maximize the income of its members. — Timothy Noah

Hard rain after dark
we slept in a driftwood hut
ocean snored all night. — Robert Hobkirk

I think it's safe to say that if you talk to anybody in Ireland, they'll have a passing knowledge of the guitar. It was something that I couldn't get away from when I was younger: guitars played in shops and parties, just everywhere. — James Vincent McMorrow