Twelve Mighty Orphans Quotes & Sayings

There is a frightening, sickening ease - and a clear attraction - to the way in which things can be blown apart. The hard job is bringing things together again. — Stephen King

I am, it seems, an avant-garde dramatist. It would even seem obvious since I am present here at discussions on the avant-garde theatre. It is all entirely official. But what does the term avant-garde mean? — Eugene Ionesco

Premature independence is the daughter of conceit. — Idries Shah

And now gay people want to get married ... Haven't they suffered enough? — George Carlin

If George W. Bush is given a second term, and retains a Republican Congress and a compliant federal judiciary, he and his allies are likely to embark on a campaign of political retribution the likes of which we haven't seen since Richard Nixon. — Paul Begala

White
Godiva, I unpeel --
Dead hands, dead stringencies. — Sylvia Plath

I try to go out for everything. I go out for any acting stuff that comes up, and voice-over stuff. — Andy Kindler

I am not prepared to deny or assert any proposition which concerns myself; but certainly this solitary struggle with platitudinous atoms, called men and women by courtesy, leads me to wish for my wife again. How did I ever hit on the only woman in the world who fits my cravings and never sounds hollow anywhere? Social chemistry-the mutual attraction of equivalent human molecules-is a science yet to be created, for the fact is my daily study and only satisfaction in life. — Henry Adams

I guess what everyone wants more than anything else is to be loved. And to know that you loved me for my singing is too much for me. Forgive me if I don't have all the words. Maybe I can sing it and you'll understand. — Ella Fitzgerald

Don't take yourself too seriously. And take yourself as seriously as death itself. — Bruce Springsteen

Potential does not always ensure success. The greatest players have not always been the most endowed. In athletics, we often hear the phrase, "He has the will to win". I think this is wrong. We can have the greatest will to do well. But unless we have prepared, it is of little use. Really, it should be the "will to prepare". Those who succeed have this will, whether it be in athletics, whether it be in school, whether it be in their chosen vocation, whether it be on a mission, or in almost any other phase of their life. — LaVell Edwards

Who doesn't want to just disappear, at some point in the day, in a year, to just step off the map and float? — Nick Flynn

Cage an eagle and it will bite at the wires, be they of
iron or of gold. — Henrik Ibsen

The sky is no longer the limit. — Richard M. Nixon

How can this world, which is so beautiful, include so much horror? — Eugene Delacroix