Skinfolks Quotes & Sayings

my parents Oedipal fakers — Lidia Yuknavitch

Alas, for our foolish human nature! Its fond mistakes are persistent. The dictates of reason take a long time to assert their sway. — Rabindranath Tagore

I am exhausted and you are nearly invisible. What a pair we are. — Sarah Pinborough

I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences. — Walt Whitman

Guns are heavy metal machines, and, at least in my case, it's surprising how many hours it takes before it looks like you know what you're doing. Releasing and re-loading magazines is difficult when you're asked to do it quickly and efficiently. — Trieste Kelly Dunn

It always looks so easy to solve problems by taking the line of least resistance. — Winston Churchill

She had big, vague eyes and a big, vague smile, and was always very busy in the way that a moth crashing about in a lampshade is busy. — Frances Hardinge

I have to look at our staff and ask the hard question - Would I hire them again? — Jeff Henderson

One of these things is not like the others. One of these things just doesn't belong. — Jay Asher

It's smart to be thrifty. — Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

Fellini, Kurosawa, and Bunuel move in the same field as Tarkovsky. Antonioni was on his way, but expired, suffocated by his own tediousness. — Ingmar Bergman

Manson is a great talker and his favorite subject is himself. — Robert K. Ressler

Near the end of the 1700s, philosophers began to declare that humans were rational individuals. People were flattered by being recognized as individuals, and by being called rational, and the idea soon wormed its way into the belief systems of nearly everyone in the upper class. Despite resistance from Church and State, the idea of rational individuality replaced the assumption that truth comes only from god and king. — Alex Pentland

The longer one lives, the less valued is that life. Why is that? — Steven Erikson

Get beyond his eyes and his smile and the sheen of his hair
Look at what's really there. — Wendelin Van Draanen