Stair Riser Quotes & Sayings

Real life is never quite as interesting as the story told afterward. — Laurence Overmire

I started dressing vintage when I was a teenager because I didn't have money for designer clothes. — Dita Von Teese

I think it's interesting: What is the generational effect of the experience of being a gay person in America? For my generation, it was very difficult. — Ira Sachs

[I]t doesn't matter whom you love or where you move from or to, you always take yourself with you. If you don't know who you are, or if you've forgotten or misplaced her, then you'll always feel as if you don't belong. Anywhere. (xiii) — Sarah Ban Breathnach

This is the story of how I "came down with cat," even though I had decided I would never, ever, own any pet. — Nils Uddenberg

The problem with hanging on to the '60s is that everyone thought they would go on forever. — Grace Slick

Self-government is our right," [Roger Casement] declared. "A thing born in us at birth; a thing no more to be doled out to us or withheld from us by another people than the right to life itself - than the right to feel the sun or smell the flowers, or to love our kind ... Where men must beg with bated breath for leave to subsist in their own land, to think their own thoughts, to sing their own songs, to garner the fruits of their own labours ... then surely it is braver, a saner and a truer thing, to be a rebel ... than tamely to accept it as the natural lot of men. — Adam Hochschild

[C]ivilians are equally bewildering to the addict. I've watched people drink a glass and a half of wine and push away the rest. What exactly is the point of that? — David Carr