Speech And Debate Team Quotes & Sayings

In reality, the monotheist texts preach neither peace, love nor tolerance. They are texts of hate. — Michel Houellebecq

Twitter, checking in on the world, and I see a tweet from some motherhood site. It says: "Sleeplessness is a badge of honor for moms." What? A badge of honor? Right then and there, my hair catches — Shonda Rhimes

Writer's block: when your imaginary friends stop talking to you. — Anonymous

Being socialized female and spending my life "othered" by this world gives me a unique perspective. In the past, this has felt like shit. In the present, it feels pretty good. In the future I hope somebody loves me enough to watch me age ungracefully. — Harvey Katz

If you're serious about improving your play, be brutally honest with yourself. — Greg Norman

There are girls who are so fierce that wearing pink makes them look that much cooler (especially when paired with black-and-white-striped tights or a skull choker). On those badass vixens, pink becomes an in-your-face dare that says hey, world, even in the girliest of colors, I'm still cool as hell, so don't fuck with me. — Shauna Cross

Adding kidney beans to his cottage cheese and pineapple was an act of bravery Dave had not intended. — Theric Jepson

First he goes to work and he takes some pineapple syrup and he puts it in a glass, and then he puts in just a liddle, lid-dle bit of that juice off them bottles full of red cherries, and then he puts in the gin and the ginger ale, and then he gets him a big, long piece of pineapple and he lays that in, and then when he gets the orange in and puts that old red cherry on top - well! That's the way Horace does when he fixes a mint julep." The — Dorothy Parker

And finally, have you trained well enough so you can say what you want to say without getting hamstrung? Have you written enough so that you are relaxed and can allow the truth to get out without being ruined by self-conscious posturings or changed by a desire to become rich? — Ray Bradbury

My mother's life had been destroyed by the Garland legend. — Lorna Luft

When seeing the simple truth means recognizing that we're in sin, we would rather see things as being complicated. — Anna Sofia Botkin

There is no bitterness in Wind In His Hair's heart," he began. "Our minds may choose different paths, but some part of every heart will always be as one. All my life I have been a warrior, and I will not change. I will not die as anything else.
"The whites have taken much from me. They have taken my brothers, my wives, my children. Now they want to take me off the earth upon which I walk. Maybe they will kill me now, and if they do, so be it. I will not take their hands. I will keep my ponies' tails tied up for war."

- Wind In His Hair — Michael Blake

When I get an idea for a song it would gel in my mind for weeks or months, and then one day just like that, Ill write it. — Johnny Cash

Inspiration and stealing are two completely different things. If somebody wants to make a song like "Stairway to Heaven" and writes a song on acoustic guitar, Led Zeppelin does not own every song that's on acoustic guitar for the rest of time. — Robin Thicke

Workmen's compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment. — Calvin Coolidge