Uncrating Quotes & Sayings

You say I sucked at the Oscars. I was a genius at the Oscars. That was experimental tuxedo sleep art. — James Franco

You can't write poetry on the computer. — Quentin Tarantino

Under [Tim] Cook's leadership, Apple is now using 100 percent renewable energy in the U.S. and China, and it's worked to improve conditions at its manufacturing plants in China. — Laura Sydell

There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word ... — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Buonaparte is certainly writing, or rather dictating, his memoirs. He walks backwards and forwards with his hands behind him, and dictates so fast that two or three of his suite are obliged to be in attendance, that the one may take down one-half of a sentence, and another the rest; they then literally compare notes, and put the disjointed legs and wings and heads of periods together. This is writing a book as he fought a battle. — Mary Russell Mitford

Dead folks can't hurt you none. It's the ones that are alive, you have to watch out for. — Grace Metalious

The question of vernaculars as media of instruction is of national importance; neglect of the vernaculars means national suicide. — Mahatma Gandhi

If free men refused to look at dead bodies then brave men will have died in vain. — John Shaw Billings

And on the last day, the bad days become so difficult to recall, because one way or another, she had made a life here, just as I had. The town was paper, but the memories were not. All the things I'd done here, all the love and pity and compassion and violence and spite, kept welling up inside me. — John Green