Raaft Quotes & Sayings

Most Americans who made it past the fourth grade have a pretty good idea who Thurgood Marshall, Rosa Parks, and Martin Luther King, Jr., were. Not many Americans have even heard of Alice Paul, Howard W. Smith, and Martha Griffiths. But they played almost as big a role in the history of women's rights as Marshall and King played in the history of civil rights for African-Americans. They gave women the handle to the door to economic opportunity, and nearly all the gains women have made in that sphere since the nineteen-sixties were made because of what they did. — Louis Menand

Well then," said Locke. "Now that we've all realized precisely how tough we'll never be, let's stand on what we have. — Scott Lynch

A figure of speech is a shifty thing; it can be twisted or it can be straight. — Salman Rushdie

Imagine that the world is made out of love. Now imagine that it isn't. Imagine a story where everything goes wrong, where everyone has their back against the wall, where everyone is in pain and acting selfishly because if they don't, they'll die. Imagine a story, not of good against evil, but of need against need against need, where everyone is at cross-purposes and everyone is to blame. — Richard Siken

Not for the first time, I wondered if my entire family tree was bat-shit crazy. — Pepper Winters

Nothing good is ever easy. Or worth it. — Maya Banks

The better the actor, usually the safer you feel working with. — Morgan Freeman

There are some cloudy days for the mind as well as for the world; and the man who has the most genius is twenty times a day in the clouds. — Laurent Angliviel De La Beaumelle

Go ahead and voice your criticisms, but don't expect to be invited back. — Mason Cooley

And maybe, although it was a thing you could hardly bear to think about, like death or your last judgment, maybe he would be the last one ever and he would walk away now and it would only be a question of waiting for it all to end and hoping for better things in the next world. But that was silly, it was never too late. — Brian Moore

The people who go get an LL album want to hear LL. They don't want to hear LL trying to sound like DMX or whoever else is out there. That's not what they want to hear from me, because if they want to hear that they can go get the real thing. — LL Cool J

I was a late bloomer. I tried out for the football team, and I got locked off the field. That's how I wound up in drama. — Dennis Quaid

You pretty much can't get away from bacon or whiskey in the South. Put a doughnut in it and you'd be good to go. — Hillary Scott

I am just coming into my best years. This year I did new things; stretching and abdominal work. — Lance Armstrong