Rip Great Grandma Quotes & Sayings

Art is jealous, and demands our whole strength ... — Vincent Van Gogh

He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebearers, but by diligent hard work, he overcame them. — James Reston Jr.

This book explains how it became fashionable to pathologize the behavior of millions of healthy male children. We have turned against boys and forgotten a simple truth: the energy, competitiveness, and corporal daring of normal males are responsible for much of what is right in the world. No one denies that boys' aggressive tendencies must be mitigated and channeled toward constructive ends. Boys need (and crave) discipline, respect, and moral guidance. Boys need love and tolerant understanding. But being a boy is not a social disease. — Christina Hoff Sommers

The economists all think that if you show up at the cashier's cage with enough currency, God will put more oil in ground, — Kenneth S. Deffeyes

You don't send messages because you have objects, you have objects because you send messages. — Sandi Metz

The only way I'll ever get hurt in the casino is if there's an earthquake and a slot machine falls on my foot. — Jack Benny

Isn't it our job to be appalled by our parents? Isn't it every generation's duty to be dismayed by the previous generation? And to assert that we are different - only to discover later that we are distressingly the same? — Erica Jong

I'm an insomniac, so my perfect reader is probably another insomniac. — John Burnside

I howl at the roof like a hotted-up bomb doing donuts, full of screeches. I howl like an air-raid siren, my arms stretched out wide. Howls are like songs. They can't be summoned; they just happen. They come from a place that I barely understand. And then something else climbs to the surface, something black and jagged, something from the deep. Imagine all your worse feelings surfacing. Imagine coughing up razor blades. Imagine not being able to stop the pain from coming out, and not knowing when it's going to end. — Leanne Hall

Even a wolf knows how to be polite when animalistic humans have no clue about politeness — Munia Khan

Ever since I realized there waz someone callt/
a colored girl an evil woman a bitch or a nag/
i been tryin not to be that & leave bitterness/
in somebody else's cup ... — Ntozake Shange

Some of the most interesting questions needing to be asked today can best be asked on television, or on stage, and they can be wonderful, great dramas, but they won't necessarily be blockbusters. — Julie Walters

when they found that he was not supercilious they told him long yarns of the distant journeys of their youth. — W. Somerset Maugham