Severson Quotes & Sayings

We cannot neglect the unemployed, underemployed and dislocated workers of America who need ample and widespread funding for federal job training services. — Joe Baca

We were both music-obsessed, each in our own way. If we didn't entirely understand the other person's obsession, it didn't matter, because we understood our own. — Gayle Forman

I want it to sound like an orange. — John Lennon

You'd be surprised what people will accept once you insist two or three times running that they have seen what you tell them they have seen. — Andrew Levkoff

I believe that life is a journey towards God, and that no one has the right to insist that you go a certain road. — Pat Buckley

You think to yourself, "If one drink feels really good and two feels really, really good, a hundred ought to feel fantastic." As sane people know, it doesn't work that way. A hundred drinks feels terrible. Bad things happen. But the addict keeps at it, thinking at some point it's going to get good again The point is to not feel what you're feeling. The problem is, you become someone you never thought you would become, and you have no idea how you got there. — Kim Severson

I wanted to tell his dad that Nathan was fine the way he was and that he was the one that needed to change. It made me glad to have my parents. If I told my dad I was gay, he'd probably just look scared and hand over more safe sex money. -Nick Severson — C.K. Kelly Martin

Do I gotta go sell me a whole lotta crack for decent shelter and clothes on my back? — Ice Cube

There are two kinds of designers: ones who are very happy locked in their office surrounded by their coterie. The last thing they need to do is to go to a trunk show; they'd go running for the hills. I not only enjoy it, I think, how do you design things that are applicable to life - unless you live it? — Michael Kors

Quite often you hear people say, 'What about separation of church and state?' There is no such thing. — Dan Severson

No human can bury their past indefinitely. It's only a matter of time before you crack. — K.A. Tucker

When I was younger I didn't have much financially, like we couldn't afford a lot of stuff and I remember seeing little girls' rooms on TV and they'd all be pink. I didn't have my own room, I shared with my brother, so I would have this daydream and imagine that one day I could have my own room and it would all be pink, like Cinderella's. — Nicki Minaj

I loathe my own face, and I've done self-portraits because I've had nobody else to do. — Francis Bacon

That's right. Get thee behind me, bitches. I don't got no time for you. Ha! (Tabitha) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

We must do all we can to reduce congestion in our urban areas and increase access and mobility in our rural areas, and this extra funding will help us get there. — John Warner

In the dark you looked so human in your skin that I called you human in my head and didn't want you then and felt relieved: a love story. — Melissa Broder

You can cook when you're hungry or cook to make a living or to feel creative or even just as a distraction, but cooking for the people whom you wake up with and go to sleep with is the best thing ever — Kim Severson

There just comes a point where you realize it is time to show up for your parents, no matter what has passed between you or how you were raised or how busy you are. You just have to show up. — Kim Severson

[On men:] ... you never know what they're like until you get them home and take them out of their packages. — Karin Slaughter

Adam's expression was ferocious and pleased; Gansey was at once proud to know him and uncertain he did at all.
"I can't believe we're doing this," Gansey said.
Adam replied, "I can. — Maggie Stiefvater

Although prison officials have long battled illegal cellphones, smartphones have changed the game. With Internet access, a prisoner can call up phone directories, maps and photographs for criminal purposes, corrections officials and prison security experts say. Gang violence and drug trafficking, they say, are increasingly being orchestrated online, allowing inmates to keep up criminal behavior even as they serve time. — Kim Severson

You simply cannot continue a nation as America without that Christian base of liberty. — Dan Severson