Unglued Lyrics Quotes & Sayings

I wasn't sure what day it was because life is meaningless. Turns out it's Thursday. The thing about life still applies. — Friedrich Nietzsche

My answer to the racial problem in America is to not deal with it at all. The founding fathers dealt with it when they made the Constitution. — James Meredith

When you deal with your brother, be pleasant, but get a witness. — Hesiod

As a comedian, you're kind of like a blues musician; you have to live a little bit. — Kevin Nealon

That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise. Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another; but let him labor diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence built. — Abraham Lincoln

You can travel through literature, and you can expand your mind through literature. It's so cheap to buy that kind of ticket. — Saul Williams

Loud, stupid and overeating will suffice as long as we also have the funny, the fierce and the intellectual — Denis Leary

Buddhists advise us to "act always as if the future of the universe depended on what you did, while laughing at yourself for thinking that whatever you do makes any difference." This serious playfulness makes it possible to be both engaged and carefree at the same time. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

One day after many, many lifetimes, we get wise. We decide that the fun in life is to give. — Frederick Lenz

If only one tooth aches, rejoice that not all of them ache ... If your wife betrays you, be glad that she betrayed only you and not the nation. — Anton Chekhov

In place of negative falsification, we have nurtured, in the past thirty years, a new fetishization. Black female protagonists are now unerringly strong and soulful; they are sexually voracious and unafraid; they take the unreal forms of earth mothers, African queens, divas, spirits of history; they process grandly through novels thick with a breed of greeting-card lyricism. They have little of the complexity, the flaws and uncertainties, depth and beauty of Janie Crawford and the novel she springs from. — Zadie Smith

Always, through my whole life, I've had a thirst for knowledge. — Emmitt Smith

We demand that segregation be ended in every school district in the year 1963! We demand that we have effective civil rights legislation - no compromise, no filibuster - and that include public accommodations, decent housing, integrated education, FEPC and the right to vote. — Bayard Rustin