Rutted Grass Quotes & Sayings

My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent. — Ulysses S. Grant

Oh. My. God. Was I flirting with Judd Carter? — M.G. Buehrlen

When we're binging, we do not think about death. We just think about how good it tastes. — Richard Simmons

Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification. — Sigmund Freud

I was a reader before I was a writer, and when I started putting together my first collection of short stories, Fairytales For Lost Children, I drew on my rich history as a reader to try and create my voice. I wanted this voice to reflect my Somali background, my Kenyan upbringing and my London home. This voice would be a mashup of all the elements that formed my youth; the sticky-sweet Jamaican patois, the Kenyan street slang, my Somali and Italian linguistic tics, my love of jazz poetics and nineties hip-hop slanguistics. This language would form the bed on which my narratives of love, loss, identity and hope would rest. — Diriye Osman

It [concentration of wealth and power] has been a menace to ... American democracy. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

And the passiveness, you know, the apathy, well, that's not responsible citizenship. When I'm asked, why am I an activist, I say, well that's the rent that I pay for living on this planet, okay? — Ray McGovern

Is that you, Sergeant Angua?" said a voice in the gloom. A lantern was open, and lit the approaching face of Constable Visit. As he drew near, she could just make out the thick wad of pamphlets under his other arm.
"Hello, Washpot," she said. "What's up?"
" ... looks like a twist of lemon ... " said a damp voice from the shadows.
"Mister Vimes sent me to search the bars of iniquity and low places of sin for you," said Visit.
"And the literature?" said Angua. "By the way, the words "nothing personal" could have so easily been added to that last sentence. — Terry Pratchett

I think the saddest day of my life was when I realized I could beat my Dad at most things, and Bart experienced that at the age of four. — Homer

Like most kids growing up, I had a very wide interest. I was interested in everything. I tried to take advantage of everything, from the sciences to music to writing to literature. — Michael P. Anderson

Prayer is not a substitute for work, thinking, watching, suffering, or giving; prayer is a support for all other efforts. — George Arthur Buttrick

It is really weird, things have just been crazy. Everything has happened so quickly I haven't had a chance to think. — Alex Parks

The beauty of my passion had been crushed under the weight of my horrific past. — Anne Tibbets

Literature is map of humanity, the documenter of civilization. Books introduce us to the landscape of the greatest minds of every century. — Kilroy J. Oldster

What is seen by mind, is an environmental image that projected by public consciousness in vicinity. — Toba Beta