Ultraconventional Quotes & Sayings

When people say, Did you always want to be a writer?, I have to say no! I always WAS a writer. — Ursula K. Le Guin

If none of your role models provide the answer, then it is time to go within and ask yourself, "What would make me happy?" In other words, let your feelings guide you. This doesn't work well if you focus narrowly on your personal needs. I am not talking about selfishness or self-interest. When I ask, What will make you happy?, I mean, What way of loving others feels right for you? Choose a way of loving that makes you happy, and your efforts will be play rather than work. — Bernie Siegel

In my world, our self-inflicted bondage with chains, cuffs, and ropes was never about containment, but freedom, a letting go. — Vanessa Fewings

If we learn not humility, we learn nothing. — John Jewel

This was yet another good thing about drinking, of course: not that drinking made you forget things, but that it made it possible for you to plausibly pretend you'd forgotten things. — Brock Clarke

The damaged love the damaged. True fact. — Chuck Palahniuk

Bastard had the bad manners to die before we were through talking to him. — Maya Banks

People protect what they love. — Jacques-Yves Cousteau

If there is ONE THING that you do today, let it be this ...
Don't take life WAY too seriously. — Tanya Masse

And to any new fans we made along the way, I say ... welcome to our party. It's just starting to get going. — Richard Marx

Four- and five-year-olds' play is permeated with the rankest sexism. No matter what their parents do and say, they play their momand pop roles in ultraconventional style. We've seen little girls whose mothers are doctors absolutely refuse to take the doctors' parts in their play, insisting that "only boys can be doctors," against all reason. Girls do more washing and drying of clothes, dishes, and babies than they've ever seen their own mothers do, and they turn their play husbands into TV-watching drones who do nothing but talk about money. — Stella Chess