Uniformity Lafayette Quotes & Sayings

I mean, look, we're living in a country where you can't have a non-denominational response. If you're slightly critical of either party, all of the partisans jump on you like you're a lunatic. — Junot Diaz

Perfect." He hugged me. "Spoiler alert!" "What is it?" I asked warily. "Everything's going to be fine, Libby," he said, hugging me again. "I just know it. — Camille Pagan

I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident ... Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They were achieved by having trained myself to endure and tolerate hard work. — Thomas A. Edison

I swear I'm gonna look on eBay to buy the filter that your mouth is missing. — Lorelei James

When language arrives at its own edge, what it finds is not a positivity that contradicts it, but the void that will efface it. Into that void it must go, consenting to come undone in the rumbling, in the immediate negation of what it says, in a silence that is not the intimacy of a secret but a pure outside where words endlessly unravel. — Michel Foucault

And read ... read all the time ... read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of life. — David McCullough Jr.

You can't look dignified when you're having fun. — Aaron Allston

When you find your spiritual gift, God will give you an opportunity to use it. — John C. Maxwell

Sometimes one touches on a very painful spot where one is almost too shy to look into it, but somehow one still has to go through it. And by going into it, one finally achieves a real command of oneself. One gains a thorough knowledge of oneself for the first time. — Chogyam Trungpa

My parents were very humanistic, but where we lived was not the cultural center of the world. Hardly. So I came to New York for two reasons: to find my own kin and also to get a job. And that's what I came to New York for in '67. — Patti Smith

You've got a song you're singing from your gut, you want that audience to feel it in their gut. And you've got to make them think that you're one of them sitting out there with them too. They've got to be able to relate to what you're doing. — Johnny Cash

I don't wear jeans. — Christine Ebersole

Elections are supposed to be political occasions. In fact the opposite is true. The last thing politicians want to talk about at election-time is politics. What they want to talk about is votes. And the less you talk about politics, the more votes you're likely to win - otherwise you might offend someone. — Alex Callinicos