Sifter Uses Quotes & Sayings

I swear by that old expression, 'One monkey don't stop no show!' The reality is, we still have some good men out there, and we should hail those men as the kings they are. — Angie Stone

Just as people laugh at a name like Rump, they fear a name like Red. Red is not a name. It's a color, an evil color. What kind of destiny does that bring? — Liesl Shurtliff

Pop culture mirrored the segregation. — Jeff Chain

The pain is stronger than ever. I've seen bit of lost Paradises and I know I'll be hopelessly tryng tu return even if it hurts. The deeper I swing into the regions of nothingness the further I'm thrown back into myself, each time more and more frightening depths below me, until my very being becomes dizzy. There are brief glimpses of clear sky, like falling out of a tree, so I have some idea where I'm going, but there is still too much clarity and straight order of things, I am getting always the same number somehow. So I vomit out broken bits of words and sintaxes of the countries I've passed through, broken limbs, slaughtered houses, geographies. My heart is poisoned, my brain left in shreds of horror and sadness. I've never let you down, world, but you did lousy things to me.
(from "As I was moving ahead occasionally I saw brief glimpses of beauty", 2000) — Jonas Mekas

I'm in a business where the only thing that matters is weight and appearance. That is so messed up. They might as well say 'Get younger,' because that's how easy it is. — Carrie Fisher

We cannot hope to create a sustainable culture with any but sustainable souls. — Derrick Jensen

I reject all evidence that my fabulous beloved is an ordinary person who worries, watches TV, and has bouts of indigestion. — Mason Cooley

We often have very little empathy for our own thoughts and feelings and frequently try to suppress them by dismissing them as weaknesses. — Mark Williams

People have moved beyond apathy, beyond skepticism into deep cynicism. — Elliot Richardson

Remember that you are all people and that all people are you. — Joy Harjo

You must know that I am, of all men who were ever born, the most inclined to love persons. Whenever I behold someone who possesses any talent or displays any dexterity of mind, who can do or say something more appropriately than the rest of the world, I am compelled to fall in love with him; and then I give myself up to him so entirely that I am no longer my own property, but wholly his. — Michelangelo

It's curious how we act in moments of personal despair. — Lawrence Welk

People think I'm disciplined. It is not discipline. It is devotion. There is a great difference. — Luciano Pavarotti

In the case of Harry and Lord Voldemort, to speak of one is to speak of the other. — J.K. Rowling

But life is a great school. It thrashes and bangs and teaches you. — Nikita Khrushchev