Umutlarin Quotes & Sayings

The challenge of the politics of atypicality becomes particularly pressing within neoliberal biopolitics, particularly in that much of disability's social oppression is based on medical classifications that overindividuate bodies within categories of pathology while turning labeled subjects into generic representations of their medicalized condition group. — David T. Mitchell

106 [degrees] in the valley ... I was sweating like Dan Rather checking for forged documents. — Jay Leno

Jason Bourne was the name of someone in American military intelligence - a traitor who was shot dead for his crime. When the present Bourne was recruited into Treadstone he was given the name of the dead man. — Eric Van Lustbader

I do think it's important for black writers to show that we too can make it into the mainstream. Growing up, I didn't just watch The Cosby Show, I watched Growing Pains and Family Ties too. We can tell those stories too. — Lena Waithe

Everything published goes down the same chute out of the overbright glare of publicity into oblivion. — John Dos Passos

It's a topsy-turvy world in which a country can import the same amount of ice-cream, toilet paper and other goods to trading partners as it exports, and where top bankers are paid millions for destroying economic value, while hospital cleaners create value many times their pay — Andrew Simms

During your lifetime, the people of our culture are going to figure out how to live sustainably on this planet
or they're not. Either way, it's certainly going to be extraordinary. If they figure out how to live sustainably here, then hum anity will be able to see something it can't see right now: a future that extends into the indefinite future. If they don't figure this out, then I'm afraid the human race is going to take its place among the species that we're driving into extinction here every day
as many as 200
every day — Daniel Quinn

Now this is over thirty years later and the guy said he was that cab driver. He apologized and he was serious. I felt awful. He might have been spending his whole life thinking he had jinxed me, but I told him he hadn't. My number was up. — Joe DiMaggio

There was a moral foundation to Walt's movies that people tapped into - a basic moral foundation. In Disney films, you see strong values and role models. You see the importance of being kind to others, of serving others, of finding joy even in adversity. — Pat Williams

A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living. — Virginia Woolf