Sharecropping Contract Quotes & Sayings

We writers are the worst kind of cruel,
Because we worship our own stories and poems,
And what human can compete with metaphors?
Writers stand still and yet vacate our homes
Inside our fantasies. We are word-whores,
With libidos and egos of balsa wood.
We'd have sex with our books, if only we could. — Sherman Alexie

I do not think the gay population has been all that rabid for gay marriage. Note that I do not use the words 'gay community.' Expunge that expression from your vocabulary. We are not a community. — Larry Kramer

We tend to disempower ourselves. We tend to believe that we don't matter. And in the act of taking that idea to ourselves we give everything away to somebody else, to something else. — Terence McKenna

Grieving needs space, and it needs so much time. And it needs to be done; it cannot be trodden round or not looked in the eye. — Susan Fletcher

You need to understand what goal you were created for and you need to understand your destination — Sunday Adelaja

I lived an idyllic 'Huckleberry Finn' life in a tiny town. Climbing trees. Tagging after brothers. Happy. Barefoot on my pony. It was 'To Kill a Mockingbird'-esque. — Sissy Spacek

The Church has never changed its teaching on the sanctity of human life - it didn't make up a rule for the convenience of a particular time like a rule at a country club as the Governor would have us believe. — Wellington Mara

Let's see ... ah, yes, this is nice and cozy. It was a broom cupboard. — J.K. Rowling

You were witnessing me become this crazy and cerebral girl, the kind of girl that you and your entire generation vilified. But doesn't witnessing contain complicity? "You think too much," is what they always said when their curiosity ran out. — Chris Kraus

True, you don't have to be religious to be crazy, but it helps. Indeed, if you are religious, you don't have to be crazy in the medically certifiable sense in order to do massively crazy things. — Daniel Dennett

I had a very loyal cult-like following, I feel. And I don't mean to complain about that. — Karen Joy Fowler