The Good Person Of Szechwan Quotes & Sayings

When people who are not black are interested in what I do, frankly, I'm always surprised. I don't know if it's my low expectations for white people or what. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

I finally understood why so much monkey business happened in the backs of buses. Put us in close proximity, with wheels spinning under us, and nothing to do but wait, we're going to start thinking of lovely uses for our bodies. I don't care who you are. — Laura Anderson Kurk

Exhortations to obstruct the operations of Government in detail, should; Exhortations to resist all. — James Mill

Life is an open book.
Time is an oscillating fan.
I've had to learn to skim-read because
before I can read more than a few paragraphs,
That fucking airhead comes circling back,
blowing pages like a medieval prostitute.
The cool air feels nice, though.
Sometimes, when my head aches,
I let me eyes relax
and I enjoy the breeze as the words blur. — Bo Burnham

All the really successful, happy relationships that I know of, the people that are together are friends, anyways. — Ashton Kutcher

Better is possible. It does not take genius. It takes diligence. It takes moral clarity. It takes ingenuity. And above all, it takes a willingness to try. — Atul Gawande

Grunge is a hippied romantic version of punk. — Marc Jacobs

No! That's not the way! This is not the time! Hold it back! Tame it! Don't waste it! Send it back! It'll come when you call! — Terry Pratchett

The truth was that, you know, there was no reason to send me to Shattuck Military School. But it was a disciplinarian school. — Nick Nolte

You don't know how people are going to respond. But I would add to that, that getting your heart broken is not the worst thing and it's actually quite unavoidable. I think in some ways I had to break my father's heart and then face that in order to have a real relationship with him. — Melissa Febos

I'm discovering my sexual side, and exploring relationships. You know, sensual stuff. And I'm discovering a lot of sides of myself, stuff I've buried. So the music is also therapeutic, to come to terms with things. And I feel now like my head is in the right space. — Alicia Keys

All you can do is put your story out there enough times and hope that a couple will understand that no matter what type of athlete you are - there were no athletes better than I was, there was no one who had more going for him than I did, there was no athlete stronger mentally than I was. — Lawrence Taylor

Life is short. Read good books! — Tina Shaw

I feel a much greater interest in knowing what has passed two or three thousand years ago, than in what is now passing. I read nothing, therefore, but of the heroes of Troy, ... of Pompey and Caesar, and of Augustus too. — Thomas Jefferson