Sociologue Quotes & Sayings

YOU HAVE WOUNDED MY HEART FOREVER! — Charles Bukowski

You've got to be before you can do and do before you can have. — Zig Ziglar

I love what I do, so it's not tiring. If I worked at a computer or drove a truck, I'd be dead in a week. — Karen Black

He did not see that the continuity of an oligarchy need not be physical, nor did he pause to reflect that hereditary aristocracies have always been shortlived, whereas adoptive organizations such as the Catholic Church have sometimes lasted for hundreds or thousands of years. The essence of oligarchical rule is not father-to-son inheritance, but the persistence of a certain world-view and a certain way of life, imposed by the dead upon the living. A ruling group is a ruling group so long as it can nominate its successors. — George Orwell

Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art. — Jorge Luis Borges

I think of my best poems as vessels that I can or hope to fill with everything I have. — Alex Lemon

The name of God is identical with the Lord. — Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa

Looking back later, acquaintances marveled at the feat of this awkward, skinny kid the yearbook called "a rather quiet chap about campus," dour and brooding, who couldn't even win a girlfriend, who attracted enemies, who seemed, a schoolmate recalled, "the man least likely to succeed in politics." They hadn't learned what Nixon was learning. Being hated by the right people was no impediment to political success. The unpolished, after all, were everywhere in the majority. — Rick Perlstein

With the full realization that, in order to earn for ourselves any place in the sun, we must with perseverance and self-discipline work collectively for the full first-class citizenship participation of Minorities everywhere, including ourselves. — Harry Hay

My interest in food really began with a month's cookery course in Frome, Somerset, after my A-levels. I left the course not an incredible cook, alas, but a real enthusiast. Food and cooking is at the core of entertaining, and my passion grew and grew. — Pippa Middleton

I am a guy," I say.
"And I hate boys," she says.
"But a guy's different," I say.
"Maybe a little," she says. — Ned Vizzini

If I can help one person in this world, then it's enough, and I've done my job. — Diane Ladd

If I don't run for a few days, I feel like my insides are dirty. The run kind of scrubs my veins and arteries, and then all starts to feel right with the world. I'm not one of those fanatical people that if I miss a run, I go nuts. But when it's something you love, you make sure you have the time to do it. — Daryn Kagan

I wouldn't do just a tour, it would have to be an album, and the album would have to beat Pull. — Kip Winger

I wanted to catch the problem of consumption, waste, poor people eating what we throw away, which is a big subject. But I didn't want to become a sociologue, an ethnographe, a serious thinker. I thought I should be free, even in a documentary which has a very serious subject. — Agnes Varda