Usuals Quotes & Sayings

Teachers do work that is both personal and political. — Dana Goldstein

When was the last time you had a good belly-shaking-tear-jerking-snot-producing laugh?
That long? — Osayi Emokpae Lasisi

If you wanted to be average, you would not be reading this book. — Lorii Myers

Christian faith, as I understand it, is not primarily a matter of signing on for the proposition that there exists a Supreme Being, but the kind of commitment made manifest by a human being at the end of his tether, foundering in darkness, pain, and bewilderment, who nevertheless remains faithful to the promise of a transformative love. — Terry Eagleton

I have been known for some time as a person who speaks the truth and speaks it strongly. I have always called a liar a liar and a hypocrite a hypocrite. — Cindy Sheehan

There was that same sense of being surrounded by the sleeping inhabitants of a waking world he had no interest in visiting or knowing, of dull business temporarily suspended, of futility and repetition soon to wake again. — William Gibson

Sometimes I feel that our bright blue sky is like a pregnant women's belly. — Santosh Kalwar

. . . my bones they'll burn or bury. It'll be my death. — Jenny Downham

Everything is muffled and car-crash-like and I want to speak but she's looking through me and I'm looking through alcohol. We're nowhere near each other even as we stumble in tandem through our disintegrating lives. — Irvine Welsh

I know when I go outside, there'll be a van or two and they'll probably follow us four out of seven days a week, trying to get something. But I'm just going across town and I know they're just wasting their day, so it doesn't bother me anymore. — Brad Pitt

As a kid, I went by Tray. In college, they called me Hitch. And Trash. And Park. All the usuals. — Traylor Howard

It's like King Arthur, but Lancelot is a butcher and Guinevere is knocked up. — Gordon Andrews

I have the freedom to take chances, to say no. I have the freedom to be who I really want to be, rather than have to conform to this or that just to stay alive. — Robert Redford