Skevens Quotes & Sayings

When I enjoy doing something, I don't mind if it hurts. — Gina Carano

I had all the characteristics of a human being - flesh, blood, skin, hair - but my depersonalization was so intense, had gone so deep, that my normal ability to feel compassion had been eradicated, the victim of a slow, purposeful erasure. I was simply imitating reality, a rough resemblance of a human being, with only a dim corner of my mind functioning — Bret Easton Ellis

If anything should offend a minority, that's it: a bunch of elitists telling them, 'You can't possibly succeed unless we give you a head start.' And yet the politicians who say that always get the bulk of the minority vote. — Larken Rose

For most Americans, work is central to their experience of the world, and the corporation is one of the fundamental institutions of American life, with an enormous impact, for good and ill, on how we live, think, and feel. — James Surowiecki

for it is this modern Occidental civilization which, since about the middle of the thirteenth century, has been - quite literally - the only innovating civilization in the world. — Joseph Campbell

Two things can't be bought. Great health and love. — Maria Dorfner

these memoirs would never have appeared; or, — Charles Dickens

I do not rule Russia: ten thousand clerks do. — Nicholas II Of Russia

I know it's difficult in the beginning. But, listen. If you have the impulse to write, do yourself a favor, do the world a favor, and write. — Christy Hall

There are no crimes and no criminals in these days. What is the use of having brains in our profession? I know well that I have it in me to make my name famous. No man lives or has ever lived who has brought the same amount of study and of natural talent to the detection of crime which I have done. And what is the result? There is no crime to detect, or, at most, some bungling villainy with a motive so transparent that even a Scotland Yard official can see through it. — Arthur Conan Doyle

You don't like people seeing you." My eyes met him then. "I beg your pardon?" His eyes roamed my fresh face. "You can't hide behind makeup. You can try, but you won't succeed. Not with me." He paused then said, "I see you. — Belle Aurora

Mitt has a ton of consultants, and not one of them thought he needed a credible answer on Bain or taxes? — Mark Steyn

Who knows if John McCain could have won that presidential campaign [2008] in any circumstances when George W. Bush the outgoing Republican president had a 22 percent approval rating. — Rachel Maddow

Go on, you've claimed your thirty pieces of silver, go do something crazy like put gas in that penis replacement you call transportation. — Molly Harper