Specimen Accessioner Quotes & Sayings

Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we. — Jean Rostand

Let's put one lie to rest for all time: the lie that men are oppressed, too, by sexism-the lie that there can be such a thing as men's liberation groups. — Robin Morgan

Quoted Lewis Hyde, whose pamphlet on John Berryman and alcohol he had read in his early months at Granada House: "Irony has only emergency use. Carried over time, it is the voice of the trapped who have come to enjoy the cage." Then he continued: This is because irony, entertaining as it is, serves an almost exclusively negative function. It's critical and destructive, a ground-clearing ... .[I]rony's singularly unuseful when it comes to constructing anything to replace the hypocrisies it debunks. — D.T. Max

There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved. — Charles Morgan

Getting older makes you no wiser,
but number of lessons that learned. — Toba Beta

To rule by knowledge ravages the country. — Laozi

One creature's truth is another's lie. (Scroom of Strix Struma) — Kathryn Lasky

I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth. — Henry Miller

B*tch: a reflection of people's lack of creativity & inability to acknowledge & embrace a powerful woman; a woman who won't comply. — Kelly Cutrone

I'm into rock'n'roll because rock'n'roll, to me, means freedom. — Ozzy Osbourne

You will write if you will write without thinking of the result in terms of a result, but think of the writing in terms of discovery, which is to say that creation must take place
between the pen and the paper, not before in a thought or afterwards in a recasting ...
It will come if it is there and if you will let it come. — Gertrude Stein

When people live in accordance with Nature, the song of life becomes sweet. — Mata Amritanandamayi

If a woman is really injured by her marriage, she should sue under the employer liability act. She should claim damages
not alimony. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Maybe I had picked a hole in the sky and the universe was all about to fall in on me. — Kami Garcia

These great improvements of modern times are blessings or curses on us, just in the same ratio as the mental, moral, and religious rule over the animal; or the animal propensities of our nature predominate over the intellectual and moral. The spider elaborates poison from the same flower, in which the bee finds materials out of which she manufactures honey. — Harriot Kezia Hunt