Shirley Clarke Afl Quotes & Sayings

Dancing was the only friend I had. The practicing room was my playground. — Minzy

Peculiar trait of the western people, thought Grant, that you could sleep with their wives, despoil their daughters, sponge on them, defraud them, do almost anything that would mean at least ostracism in normal society, and they would barely seem to notice it. But refuse to drink with them and you immediately became a mortal enemy. What the hell? He didn't even want to think about the west or its people and their peculiarities. Let them be. Once he was in Sydney, who knew, he might never come back. — Kenneth Cook

The American language differs from the English in that it seeks the top of expression while English seeks its lowly valleys. — Salvador De Madariaga

Nature is not cruel, only pitilessly indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be neither good nor evil, neither cruel nor kind, but simply callous-indifferent to all suffering, lacking all purpose. — Richard Dawkins

You cannot imagine the strange colour-less delight of these intellectual desires. — H.G.Wells

She knew that I had no idea how close I was, would always be, to the edge, how easily boys like me were erased in absurd, impractical ways. One minute we were tossing snowballs at taxis, firing up in front the 7-Eleven, speeding down side streets and the next we're surrounded by unholstered guns, a false move away from going down. I would always be a false move away. I would always have the dagger at my throat. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

All that is not given is lost. — Rabindranath Tagore

People turn to violence, because they have no other avenue left. — Robert Fisk

The rationale which accompanies that imposition of male authority euphemistically referred to as 'the battle of the sexes' bears a certain resemblance to the formulas of nations at war, where any heinousness is justified on the grounds that the enemy is either an inferior [part of the] species or really not human at all. — Kate Millett

I can't run away when I'm scared. I always have to attack. That's how I deal with seemingly difficult things. — Will Smith

I never, with important air, In conversation overbear ... My tongue within my lips I rein; For who talks much must talk in vain. — John Gay

It's my fault too. For a long time, I wanted to be rescued, I realized that. But not anymore. You don't have to protect me all the time now. — Kim Edwards

Some of you ... have never read a Patrick O'Brian novel. I beseech you to start now. Start with Master and Commander, which should be available in paperback from your nearest bookseller. And if he-or she-does not have a copy, then beat the wretched fellow. — Kevin Myers