Tahirih Walker Quotes & Sayings

I thought about this for days, just as I thought of the special-ed teacher I met in Pittsburgh. "You know," I said, "I hear those words and automatically think Handicapped, or, Learning disabled. But aren't a lot of your students just assholes?"
"You got it," she said. Then she told me about a kid - last day of class - who wrote on the blackboard, "Mrs. J is a cock master."
I was impressed because I'd never heard that term before. She was impressed because the boy had spelled it correctly. — David Sedaris

By forces seemingly antagonistic and destructive Nature accomplishes her beneficent designs - now a flood of fire, now a flood of ice, now a flood of water; and again in the fullness of time an outburst of organic life ... — John Muir

So long as we need to control other people, however benign our motives, we are captive to that need. In giving them freedom, we free ourselves. — Marilyn Ferguson

Analogies are like lies. — Roman Payne

It's that kind of choice of a woman - to go with the nice guy or the nasty guy. And I think that all women get to make that choice and they always go for the suave, nasty guy. It's a fact of life. — Callum Blue

Donald Trump said it was his idea for [Sarah] Palin to bring up her son at the rally. — Chris Hayes

I like PBS. I love Big Bird ... But I'm not going to keep on spending money on things to borrow money from China to pay for. — Mitt Romney

Wars are an outdated way to try to solve conflicts, which is unacceptable in the 21st century. Instead of trying to conquer yourself, wars are an unconscious way to try to conquer life. Wars are an unconscious way to try to conquer death, which is the basic fear in the West. — Swami Dhyan Giten

She had had insomnia badly when she was fresh from Home ... She had had only occasional bad nights since then. Bad? she thought. Why bad? I rarely feel much the worse the next day, except for a sort of moral irritability that seems to go with the feeling that I ought to have spent all those silent hours asleep. — Robin McKinley

Kenji Mizoguchi is to the cinema what Bach is to music, Cervantes is to literature, Shakespeare is to theatre, Titian is to painting: the very greatest. — Jean Douchet

You don't realize how many bridges there are until the sight of one collapses something inside of you. — Cora Carmack

Staying present, living in Presence is the best gift anyone can give to those they love. — Guy Finley

Viagra is a drug, just like cocaine. It can cause you to become addicted. — Jackie Collins