Retreading Basement Quotes & Sayings

Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom. — Vita Sackville-West

Maybe there is a way to climb above everything, some special ladder or insight, some optical vantage point that allows a clear, unobstructed view of things. — Emily Fridlund

Procrastinate now, don't put it off. — Ellen DeGeneres

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind. — Socrates

When I got hit by the car, I became depressed. As a result, I've been on antidepressants and I feel like I have no sexuality left. People complain about that side effect, but I love it. I feel outside of society. — Bradford Cox

Slowly, he lifts the flashlight. Her shorts are torn and frayed, her shirt ripped from chest to naval, exposing her black bra and dirty stomach. And then he raises the light so it reflects off her face, off the crimson tears streaming from the girl's eyes. Her boney hands fly up to protect her face, and her head tilts sharply as she hisses. — Laura Kreitzer

I am my own heir. — Lope De Vega

One quality in a person doesn't rule out any other quality. They can exist side by side, good and terrible. Socrates said it a lot better. — Thomas Harris

...the Party always makes you spend a bit of time getting to know people on the ground before you leave them behind, so if you do well enough to stand for election you can claim to have grassroots support. — Jeremy Tiang

What did I tell you about plastic ties?
Only for humans, Julie murmured.
If you don't listen to me, I can't teach you anything. — Ilona Andrews

Unless the whole structure of the government is changed from a government by States to something like a despotic central government, with power to control even the municipal regulations of States, and to make them conform to its own despotic will. — Frederick Douglass

We need not fear any isms if our democracy is achieving the ends for which it was established ... — Eleanor Roosevelt

To be written into story. That was how even the lost lived on. — Martha Brockenbrough

Growing up on a set is completely different than coming onto a brand new set for the first time. — Alexa Vega

Meditation is a violent act of separation from mass consciousness and direct access to power. — Frederick Lenz