Quociente Quotes & Sayings

The Self Is Not Portable
The self is not
portable. It
cannot be packed.
It comes sneaking
back to any place
from which it's
been extracted,
for it is nothing alone.
It is not an entity.
The ratio of self
to home: one part
in seventy. — Kay Ryan

May we be thunder in our doctrine and lighten in out conversations. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

I grew up castrating hogs on an Iowa farm, so when I come to Washington, I'll know how to cut pork. — Joni Ernst

Everything waited. The night was ending. The world was holding its breath, preparing to begin again. — Neil Gaiman

When I heard the book (Thomas Friedman's latest) was actually coming out, I started to worry. Among other things, I knew I would be asked to write the review. The usual ratio of Friedman criticism is 2:1, i.e., two human words to make sense of each single word of Friedmanese. Friedman is such a genius of literary incompetence that even his most innocent passages invite feature-length essays. — Matt Taibbi

O lead me onward to the loneliest shade,
The darkest place that quiet ever made,
Where kingcups grow most beauteous to behold
And shut up green and open into gold. — John Clare

In South Africa, "some women identify as gay rather than lesbian" and a "masculine man" playing the dominant role in a relationship with another man, for instance, is called "a straight man" and is not perceived as "gay" because he act as penetrator during sexual intercourse. This holds true to some extent in North Africa and in the Middle East. — Chantal Zabus

Cultivating relationships with people who've achieved what you want to achieve makes the path fuller and more fun. — Katori Hall

The Greenham women left home for peace: 'Not in our name!' they cried. And in doing so, they spoke for millions. — Beeban Kidron

One of these days, your luck won't hold, his father's voice reminded him.
Maybe, he thought back to it, but not today. — Peter V. Brett

You might be a redneck if your wife has a beer belly and you find it attractive. — Jeff Foxworthy

Puns are the droppings of soaring wits. — Victor Hugo

A lot of time it is hard to break into the commercial world and that has only to do with money and that has nothing to do with being female or male. — Anne Fletcher