Sarah Braverman Quotes & Sayings

She was brilliant and joyous and she believed- probably correctly- that libraries contain the answers to all things, to everything, and that if you can't find the information you seek in the library, then such information probably doesn't exist in this or any parallel universe now or ever to be known. She was thoughtful and kind and she always believed the best of everybody. She was, above all else, a master librarian and she knew where to find any book on any subject in the shortest possible time.
And she was wonderfully unhinged. — Gary Paulsen

If you are really standing up for the family, you then have to say, how do we change our school system, how do we fix tax policy so that our families are supported? — Otis Moss III

I've got a lot of cutting and pasting to do, gentlemen, so why don't you please return to your porch rockers and resume whittling. — Albert Rosenfeld

No wonder everyone is keen to put their feet up and let Fate look after them. It's rather like your granddad. Or a very hands-on organised person, sort of your own personal PA.
Only in my experience Fate is no such thing, and the same goes for his little brother, Destiny. Quite frankly they've made a real mess of things where I'm concerned. So from now on they can bugger off and stop meddling. I'm taking charge of my own life, and when it comes to love, Fate can mind its own bloody business. — Alexandra Potter

You can't ever put your self-definition in the hands of somebody who meets you for 15 minutes. — Helena Bonham Carter

It's like the Negro in America seeing the white man win all the time.
He's a professional gambler; he has all the cards and the odds stacked on his side, and he has always dealt to our people from the bottom of the deck. — Malcolm X

Don't send me your script if you want me to play the black best friend. I just won't do that. — David Oyelowo

It wasn't a question of luck, the way some folks will tell you; they will tell you it's back luck to be near the wounded. It was just that we didn't want to be close to them any longer than it took to run past, the way you wouldn't want to be near someone who had something catching, like smallpox — Shelby Foote

Whatever you are, you have the right to get married. — Paloma Faith

You must tell Lady Alanna that sometime. I'd do it from a distance. — Tamora Pierce

I think theatre to some extent is always about telling stories, isn't it, and I think what I've learned is that freedom comes when you tell your story; freedom comes when you tell the truth. — Eve Ensler

My life is, in a sense, trash. My life is only that of which the residue is my writing. — John Updike

When giving comes directly from the heart, it can never disappoint or embarrass. — Bel Kaufman

WE ARE ALL TRAPPED in our own way of thinking, trapped in our own way of relating to people. We get so used to seeing the world our way that we come to think that the world is the way we see it. — Brian Grazer

Mr. Keene smiled. Think what you like, that smile said. Think what you like, and I'll think what I like. All I'm telling you, Eddie, is that you're not physically ill. Your lungs don't have asthma; your mind does. — Stephen King