Shortens Colds Quotes & Sayings

Concurrently, when it comes to matters of the heart we are encouraged to treat partners as though they were objects we can pick up, use, and the discard and dispose of at will, with the one criteria being whether or not individualistic desires are satisfied. — Bell Hooks

A life accumulates a collection: of people, work and perplexities. We are all our own curators. — Richard Fortey

The classic rule of thumb is that if you are an intellectual ideological magazine, you do better in opposition than you do if your views are reflected by people in power. — John Podhoretz

Those who seek to drag heaven down to earth are destined only to engineer a hell. — George Monbiot

The leftist is antagonistic to the concept of competition because, deep inside, he feels like a loser. — Theodore Kaczynski

I knew then that the person on the outside was only a shell, a presence to be seen and provoked. Inside was the real me, where my tears joined the tears of all the sad people to form the three waterfalls in the night country. — Bryce Courtenay

I saw bubbling lava, and at the same moment I saw a reflection of a certain kind of inner turmoil. Because at the moment I looked into that crater, I slipped, and a large piece of volcanic rock took a hole out of my leg. The scar is still there 20, 30 years later. But it's one of those things that reminds you of the kind of risk or the kind of moment in order to push yourself. — Julie Taymor

Take modern courtships! They resulted in the same thing as under George the Second, but took longer to reach it, owing to the motor-cycle and the standing lunch. — John Galsworthy

It was like that for the first six months after 'E.T.' was in cinemas. I'd go out and get mobbed. I was a shy kid, and being approached by adults all the time just freaked me out. — Henry Thomas

You don't need to marry a man with millions. You only need to be your exquisite self. — Anna Godbersen

I love songs that have a rocking and grooving feeling. — Joe Cocker

In the western part of England lived a gentleman of large fortune, whose name was Merton. — Thomas Day

We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-interest. Even in the common transactions and daily intercourse of life, we are governed by whim, caprice, prejudice, or accident. The falling of a teacup puts us out of temper for the day; and a quarrel that commenced about the pattern of a gown may end only with our lives. — William Hazlitt

Only adults are so messed up that they rationalize the need to have a reason for being happy, — Cameron Jace

I just started doing this one-man show, and I wanted to be able to score it, so I bought a guitar, and got a keyboard and got a harmonica. I remember when I started that I didn't understand why a harmonica had different letters on them. — Demetri Martin