Wassberg Quotes & Sayings

It is impossible to feel calm in cities, he believes, because we so rarely hear birdsong there. Our ears evolved to be our warning systems. We are on high alert in places where no birds sing. To live in a city is to be forever flinching. — Jenny Offill

For too many years, politicians in Washington have been eager to pledge more hard-earned taxpayer dollars to help deal with the student debt load. But this doesn't sit right with the many Americans who take pride in making fiscally responsible choices and paying off their loans on time. — John Kline

First of all, you are not really that supreme. — Lupe Fiasco

How frequently has melancholy and even misanthropy taken possession of me, when the world has disgusted me, and friends have proven unkind. I have then considered myself as a particle broken off from the grand mass of mankind. — Mary Wollstonecraft

I jack, I rob, I sin. Aw man, I'm Jackie Robinson 'Cept when I run base, I dodge the pen — Jay-Z

I think the things that make people different are the things that make them the most beautiful. — Lindsay Price

We call upon a God so great, amidst a very sacred date, to bless us with a mighty feast of wine and bread and beast. To Dagda of the Irish Isle, God of Earth with charming smile, we gently do invoke thy power; be with us on the witching hour. — Katerina Martinez

The worse the troops the greater the need of artillery. — Napoleon Bonaparte

'Jurassic Park' has a lot of science in it - and a lot of it is wrong - but if it was all accurate, it would be a documentary. — Jack Horner

Men are never duly touched and impressed with a conviction of their insignificance, until they have contrasted themselves with the majesty of God — R.C. Sproul

Cowards can never be moral. — Mahatma Gandhi

When I finally retire, I just want to go away so no one has to listen to me. — Steve Martin