Urban Slang Quotes & Sayings

Every unit that is not supported is a defeated unit. — Maurice De Saxe

The music business has let me touch a lot of people with my talent. — Britney Spears

Adele is so great! I love "Someone Like You"! Everyone is just raving about it. What's so nice about it - and a lot of her songs - is it just takes it back to basics. — Kerry Ellis

Oh, he was a decent-enough high school student, good grades and well-liked, but his test scores were nothing to write home about. He might as well have Christmas-treed the math test. — Thomas Christopher Greene

Fear follows crime and is its punishment. — Voltaire

Once she had said to him that what they had was grace. Even now, married properly, rank bestowed, it still was. And always would be — Anne Leonard

My students - all adults - bring a lot of writing skill to the first class, and they and I get better as the class progresses. — James Thayer

He was almost a poet in his old age and his notion of what happened took a poetic turn. 'I had come to the time in my life when prayer became necessary and so I invented gods and prayed to them,' he said. 'I did not say my prayers in words nor did I kneel down but sat perfectly still in my chair. In the late afternoon when it was hot and quiet on Main Street or in the winter when the days were gloomy, the gods came into the office and I thought no one knew about them. Then I found that this woman Elizabeth knew, that she worshipped also the same gods. I have a notion that she came to the office because she thought the gods would be there but she was happy to find herself not alone just the same. It was an experience that cannot be explained, although I suppose it is always happening to men and women in all sorts of places. — Sherwood Anderson

To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Ageism works in both directions. As a teenager in the public eye, people would talk condescendingly to me. When you get older there's this feeling that you have to start carving up your face and body. Right now I'm in the middle ground - I think women in their thirties are taken seriously. — Alanis Morissette