Scalatags Quotes & Sayings

Sir, I do firmly believe that domestic slavery, regulated as ours is, produces the highest toned, the purest, best organization of society that has ever existed on the face of the earth. — James Henry Hammond

She remembered how her heart, so tight, like a scroll, had opened when Arin kissed her.
It had unfurled.
If her heart were truly a scroll, she could burn it.
It would become a tunnel of flame, a handful of ash.
The secrets she had written inside herself would be gone. No one would know — Marie Rutkoski

Everybody that I was in school with had an uncle or father in the law, and I started to realize that I was going to end up writing briefs for about ten years for these fellows who I thought I was smarter than. And I was kind of losing my feeling for that. — John Wayne

What is worst about America was acted out. What is best in America doesn't export. — Robert Stone

I remember the feeling even now; an inescapable stickines of each other like magnets on the fridge. It's funny how someone can be such an integral part of your life, like you laugh at the same jokes and eat your ice cream cones the same way and share your toys and dreams and everything but your heartbeats, and then one day - nothing. You share nothing. It's like none of it ever happened. — Sarah Ockler

I think, The world is actually huge. That's the part no one can really explain. — Jennifer Egan

Deficit consumption is, in effect, drawing down on the capital entitlements of future generations — Jonathon Porritt

It's a poor kind of man that won't fight for his own freedom. — Alice Childress

True strength is delicate. — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

When you're in these movie deals and the studios are talking, they're putting business deals and packages together, but they're making calls based on previous relationships. They go, "Oh, let's call this actor because we did this with him, and he might like him. Does he like him? Let's piece them together." There's a brain behind that puzzle, and I want to be the brain. — Kevin Hart

When you live for a strong purpose, then hard work isn't an option. It's a necessity. — Steve Pavlina

In America idea of freedom isn't actually about freedom. That's about power. The point of an artist is to find out what are the flavors that I must work with. Finding one's freedom is about surrendering to your helplessness. — Chris Martin

Your gift with storytelling, Evie? It's not about you getting lost in your own mind, or living in a dreamland. It's about the beauty of your heart. It's about being able to rise above even the worst of situations. It's one of the reason I've loved you every single day since I was 11 years old. — Mia Sheridan

Mainly I make music, and you can do that until you drop dead. — Grace Slick

When I'm drawing a picture, I feel ... quiet inside. — Katherine Applegate