Subalternos Quotes & Sayings

But the rare herb, Forgetfulness, / It hides away from me. — Jeanne Robert Foster

DNA predisposes a certain behavior, but if your environment doesn't support it, then that behavior won't manifest. When people don't have opportunity, they have to create their own opportunities — Eric Jerome Dickey

Profit is to business what breathing is to humans. Both are essential to survival, but just as breathing is not the purpose of life, so profit is not the purpose of business. — Margaret Benefiel

I envy the tireless intimacy of women's friendship, its lastingness, and its unbendable strength. — Pat Conroy

Some people think the real them is whoever they are when they're not around other people. — Garth Risk Hallberg

I'm not a jazz singer. — Boz Scaggs

There is no need to upset about the fact that our ancestors were monkeys, because they are capable chaps! Don't be sad about the truth, just understand the truth! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

There is nothing more boring than people who love you. — Eric Bogosian

As an actor, I'm always critical watching others; it's just the nature of the beast. For me, any performance that doesn't cause my ego to say, 'I can do that' really signifies that it's spectacular. — David Alan Basche

Mechanical wings allow us to fly, but it is with our minds that we make the sky ours — William Langewiesche

In the house of Death there is no time but the present. (There was, of course, a present before the present now, but that was also the present. It was just an older one.) — Terry Pratchett

DOES EVERYBODY THINK I am an asshole?" Curran asked. "Only people who know you or have met you. — Ilona Andrews

Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks. — P. J. O'Rourke