Retkoop Quotes & Sayings

As long as designers want to dress me, photographers want to take my picture and companies think my face will help their products, then I won't go anywhere until they're done with me. — Linda Evangelista

Nonviolence is the means, the end for everyone is complete independence. — Mahatma Gandhi

Hell is fine. Surely God wants nothing to do with us, anyway. — Tiffany Reisz

Sometimes you hurt people even if it's the last thing you want to do. — Veronica Rossi

It has become a commonplace that aggressiveness also often has its roots in fear. I am inclined to think that this theory has been pushed too far. [ ... ] The type of aggressiveness that is the outcome of timidity is not, I think, that which inspires great leaders; the great leaders, I should say, have an exceptional self-confidence which is not only on the surface, but penetrates deep into the subconscious. — Bertrand Russell

Even when battered and broken, he was beautiful. Yes, a guy could be beautiful. Especially if that guy was Deandre. — Aishabella Sheikh

The decline and fall of a civilization is barely noticed by most of its citizens. — James Cook

Do not allow yourself to be pulled into the role of embracing victimship as some sort of badge of honor to wear or flash around at any opportunity. — Stephen Richards

Every literate woman is a victory over poverty — Ban Ki-moon

The PR industry loves the concept that if you just apologize, the problem goes away. The concept of apology is known in the Judeo-Christian sense: You apologize, but then you suffer. The problem is nobody wants the suffering. Everybody wants drive-through redemption. — Eric Dezenhall

Do you know how you get the urge to clean your room, and it's no big deal? But when your mom tells you that you have to clean your room, you don't want to? That's me, anyway. — Bill Konigsberg

Follow the loglo outward, to where the growth is enfolded into the valleys and the canyons, and you find the land of the refugees. They have fled from the true America, the America of atomic bombs, scalpings, hip-hop, chaos theory, cement overshoes, snake handlers, spree killers, space walks, buffalo jumps, drive-bys, cruise missiles; Sherman's March, gridlock, motorcycle gangs, and bungee jumping. They have parallel-parked their bimbo boxes in identical computer-designed Burbclave street patterns and secreted themselves in symmetrical sheetrock shitholes with vinyl floors and ill-fitting woodwork and no sidewalks, vast house farms out in the loglo wilderness, a culture medium for a medium culture. — Neal Stephenson

We are imprisoned in life in the company of persons powerfully unlike us. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I don't know what it is about accents that makes me want to get undressed and high-five myself. — Chelsea Handler