Shrill Society Quotes & Sayings

Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all. — W. Somerset Maugham

Why is it that when your life is at a breaking point, every freaking song on the radio relates to it. If I heard one more sad song, I was going to rip the radio out of the dash and toss it out on the road. — Jennifer Foor

I think art is about human existence. Almost by default I'm expressing my experiences as a human. — Robert Gober

The turtle stands on a turtle, which stands on a turtle. That's the universe in whole, boy. It's turtles all the way down. — Bill Willingham

The most valuable lessons we will ever learn are the ones that happen after we fall flat on our faces without anyone around to catch us. — Markus Almond

You can't make your choices based on what critics think. You have to make your choices based on what's honest for you. — Nicolas Cage

In my society, even the right things are wrong. — M.F. Moonzajer

A best-seller is the golden touch of mediocre talent. — Cyril Connolly

It takes more than language to know what language can know. — Barry Allen

They were and are children of privilege ... the privilege taught, learned, and imbibed, in a "liberal arts education" is the privilege to indict. These children have, in the main, never worked, learned to obey, command, construct, amend, or complete - to actually contribute to the society. They have learned to be shrill, and that their indictment, on the economy, on sex, on race, on the environment, though based on no experience other than hearsay, must trump any discourse, let alone opposition. It occurred to me that I had seen this behavior elsewhere, where it was called developmental difficulty. — David Mamet

We could survive the worst, doesn't it stand to reason we should be able to bear the best? — V.C. Andrews

God has given me the will and the force to overcome all obstacles. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Yes, well, I tried seriousness once and found it made my butt look fat. Who wants to live like that? — Sherrilyn Kenyon

I will be me,
when world aberrantly
will feel, my gravity!
I will turn into my,
when their shrill cry
will stop asking why!
(Poem:Because you so wanna meet me, Book: Ginger and Honey) — Jasleen Kaur Gumber

I don't lead a particularly exciting life away from work. — Sienna Miller

You're not in love with him. You're just happy to be here. Really supremely fucking happy. And all hopped up on the fresh air and orgasms. — Melanie Harlow

But all progressive movements have to beware their own successes. The progress they make reinvents the society they work in, and they must in turn reinvent themselves to keep up, otherwise they become hollow echoes from a once loud, strong voice, reverberating still, but to little effect. As their consequence diminishes, so their dwindling adherents become ever more shrill and strident, more solicitous of protecting their own shrinking space rather than understanding that the voice of the times has moved on and they must listen before speaking. It happens in all organizations. It is fatal to those who are never confronted by a reckoning that forces them to face up and get wise. — Tony Blair