Rootens Luggage Quotes & Sayings

I never put real people into my fiction
I can't see the slightest point of that, when I have the alternative of inventing utterly subservient slave-people, whose every detail of appearance and behavior I can bend to serve my theme and plot. — Barbara Kingsolver

The church will not have power to act or believe until it recovers its tradition of faith and permits that tradition to be the primal way out of enculturation. — Walter Brueggemann

Ungrateful little twit." The egg-man scowls at me. "Looking a gift spider in the fangs. See if you're invited to tea again. — A.G. Howard

I don't consider myself a musician. I'm an artist. — M.I.A.

Day after day, ordinary people become heroes through extraordinary and selfless actions to help their neighbors. — Sylvia Mathews Burwell

It's better to have a good player with the basketball in late game situations than to have plays. — Rick Pitino

I don't often get involved with campaigns at all. — Sam Altman

Where they couldn't pick holes in our arguments they would drive horses and carriages through my character. — Julian Assange

How do you make a girl know she's beautiful? What is the system for that, what do you show her, how do you give her a new set of eyes and turn her face back to the mirror? — Michelle Tea

I've always preferred Marvel over DC. I just relate to their characters better. I mean look at Wolverine, at first he was just a bit player in an ensemble cast. Now he's the only reason people read X-Men. Just like me and Scrubs. — Zach Braff

The fancies that take their monstrous birth from the spinelessness and boredom of usurped wealth bring in their wake every defect ... and though rich men's crimes escape the law, protected as they are by the cowardice of governments and people, Nature, more real than society, sets her anarchic example by abandoning the wretched time servers of Capital to the shame and madness of the worst aberrations. — Jean Lorrain

Everyone should be encouraged ... in spiration and artistic freedom is the cornerstone of rock and roll. — John Cale