Sniffies Quotes & Sayings

The age-old, seemingly inexorable process whereby diseases acquire meanings (by coming to stand for the deepest fears) and inflict stigma is always worth challenging, and it does seem to have more limited credibility in the modern world, among people willing to be modern - the process is under surveillance now. With this illness, one that elicits so much guilt and shame, the effort to detach it from these meanings, these metaphors, seems particularly liberating, even consoling. But the metaphors cannot be distanced just by abstaining from them. They have to be exposed, criticized, belabored, used up. — Susan Sontag

The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters - from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number - a sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him. — Crystal Eastman

I wouldn't necessarily say I'm arrogant. I'm just confident. — Draymond Green

People are worms, and even the God who created them is immensely bored with their antics. — Ama Ata Aidoo

I think my legs are a strong point, so I try to draw attention to them rather than the upper part of my body. — Chloe Sevigny

If patterns of ones and zeroes were "like" patterns of human lives and deaths, if everything about an individual could be represented in a computer record by a long strings of ones and zeroes, then what kind of creature could be represented by a long string of lives and deaths? — Thomas Pynchon

Basically, I dont want to know everything:
I just want to know enough! — Michelle Geaney

She angled her head to look up at him. Her blue eyes were huge in the moonlight. One tear still clung to her lash, looking like a shining jewel. He touched it with his fingertip and it dissolved, warm and wet into his skin. His gaze shifter to her bowshaped mouth. Her lips trembled, then parted. A soft mew of a sound escaped them.
There was nothing to do but kiss her. — B. J. Daniels

My inspiration's coming from nature, I love nature and all the expressions, I love art, I love expressions of beauty. It's part of my life, being engaged in the moment. — Rickson Gracie

When I use my strength in the service of my vision it makes no difference whether or not I am afraid. — Audre Lorde

Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs. — Audre Lorde

Don't blame people for who they are, blame yourself for thinking they were different. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

If a child attempts to cooperate at test time, it is called 'cheating.' In the real world of business, business owners cooperate at test time, and in the world of business, every day is test time. — Robert T. Kiyosaki