Walter Brueggemann Disorientation Quotes & Sayings

That's why all those records from high school sound so good. It's not that the songs were better - it's that we were listening to them with our friends, drunk for the first time on liqueurs, touching sweaty palms, staring for hours at a poster on the wall, not grossed out by carpet or dirt or crumpled, oily bedsheets. These songs and albums were the best ones because of how huge adolescence felt then, and how nostalgia recasts it now. — Carrie Brownstein

I attempted to hold onto some part of reality as my pussy wept for him. — Lori Jenessa Nelson

Working with heart, then enjoy our time. — Marya Sy

I'm unwilling to eat food that has been adulterated. — Alice Waters

Onstage, there's no hiding; you either can or can't act. There's no second take. — Anna Friel

Of all the Fairy strangeness she had known, this seemed suddenly both the strangest and least strange of all. How she would have liked to be looked after like that, cared for and watched over. And yet at the same time, she understood the Whelk, and wished she could grow big enough to hold on to everyone she loved at once. To keep them safe and with her always and know their secret needs well enough to answer them. — Catherynne M Valente

All I have learned in life really just boils down to this: there is only one difference between the so-called wise and the so-called foolish ... and between those who are truly happy and those who are not. Those who are wise - and those who are happy - embrace and appreciate life. Those who are unhappy and unwise do not. That is all; that is the only difference. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

I fear - as far as I can tell - that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training. — Alan Kay