Rubbernecks 7 Quotes & Sayings

For a decadent like Baudelaire the only possible ends are suicide or the foot of the cross — Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly

Back inside, I'm shown an antique cabinet in which members of the community, famous for their homegrown produce, dried herbs.
The Oneida Community was an upstate tourist attraction right from the start, second, Valesky says, to Niagara Falls. I'm taking the same guided tour offered a hundred and fifty years ago to prim rubbernecks who came here to peep at sex fiends. I wonder how many of my vacationing forebears went home disappointed? They thought they were taking the train to Gomorrah but instead they got to watch herbs dry. Valesky opens a drawer in the herb cabinet so I can get a whiff. He mentions that back in the day, when one tourist was shown the cabinet she rudely asked her community-member guide, "What's that odor?" To which the guide replied, "Perhaps it's the odor of crushed selfishness." Valesky grins. "How about that for a utopian answer?" To my not particularly utopian nose, crushed selfishness smells a lot like cilantro. — Sarah Vowell

Artists in not only country but other genres usually make four or five albums, then they change producers to keep their sound moving forward. — Juice Newton

The refugee in Syria doesn't benefit more if you conserve your kindness only for her and withhold it from your neighbor who's going through a divorce. — Brene Brown

You see, I could no longer be trusted around beautiful things and my weakness was apparent — Liza Ward

I know you've been trying to get a hold of me, but I can barely get a hold of myself — The Weeknd

It's not possible to see everything physically. If you need more money you need to tap into the higher vibration. You will be amazed once the manifestation starts. — Hina Hashmi

Nobody lived in Eden anymore. — Bernard Malamud

Why did people do it? Why this herd curiosity about a street, a house, windows, doors? He was a public servant, the Inspector mused, but there were times when he would enjoy loading all the rubbernecks onto barges and towing them out to sea to be served, with ceremony, to sharks. — Ellery Queen

One of the happiest days of my life was when I quit waiting for "happily-ever-after" to come find me and proclaimed joy in the just now season of life. And the next season. And the next. — Vicki Courtney

What I really felt like, though, was committing suicide. I felt like jumping out the window. I probably would've done it, too, if I'd been sure somebody'd cover me up as soon as I landed. I didn't want a bunch of stupid rubbernecks looking at me when I was all gory. — J.D. Salinger

I don't like people that try to psyche other people out. — Molly Quinn

When I was 3, I recited a poem at a festival in Passaic, New Jersey. The applause was tremendous, and it hit me that I could affect people positively by performing. — Nina Arianda

I felt isolated in my misery. I became lonely, so I drank a bit, and then a bit more, and then I became lonelier, because no one likes being around a drunk. I lost and I drank and I drank and I lost. — Paula Hawkins

At a young age, I was interested in comic books, which was really how I learnt to read. The name Cage came from a comic book character called Power Man. — Nicolas Cage