Weygantt Quotes & Sayings

I think public intellectuals have a responsibility - to be self-critical on the one hand, to do serious, nuanced work rigorously executed; but to also be able to get off those perches and out of those ivory towers and speak to the real people who make decisions; to speak truth to power and the powerless with lucidity and eloquence. — Michael Eric Dyson

A sound body with a non-judgmental mind and a heart full of love is the fountain of happiness. — Debasish Mridha

The best way to make a fire with two sticks is to make sure one of them is a match. — Will Rogers

The only reason the president insists on raising [tax] rates is because he knows it will destroy Republican unity, it will cause a complete fracture of the Republican majority in the house, it will hand him a Congress that he can then manipulate for the next two years at least because the Republicans will be neutered ... This is entirely a political action, a way to get a surrender from the Republicans. — Charles Krauthammer

Just because I cut the heads off dolls doesn't mean I hate babies, I just hate dolls. — Alice Cooper

Anything you like; anything I like ... No past to make us sentimental, no future to embarrass us — Jean Rhys

Occasionally I looked up towards some vast old apartment with its shutters still open and where amphibious men and women, adapting themselves each evening to living in an element different from their daytime one, swam about slowly in the dense liquid which at nightfall rises incessantly from the wells of lamps and fills the rooms to the brink of their walls of stone and glass, and as they moved about in it, their bodies sent forth unctuous golden ripples. — Marcel Proust

I'd been blathering for the last twenty minutes about all that had been going down with me. Except for Ryker's warning about my neighbors, I didn't leave anything out.
"Vi," I snapped when she still didn't say anything.
"Quiet," she returned. "I'm trying to stop myself from slapping you upside your head. — Kristen Ashley

The day Caleb touched my hand and I saw all those things, I was excited. Yes, a little freaked but excited more. I felt like ... everything I ever needed was right there. I still feel like that. It's not something you can just turn off and I wouldn't want to. I want him more than I need him. — Shelly Crane

Woody Allen movies notwithstanding, therapy, in the early eighties, was not exactly a hot conversation starter. Nor was it a favoured activity for dysfunctional couples or suffering individuals. — Dan Hill

Then he returned to Mabel and put his mouth to her ear. I'd never let anything happen to you. You know that, don't you? — Eowyn Ivey

Shoeshine looked disappointed. "Don't do that, young fella." "Do what?" "Try and label everyone you meet." The man coughed again. "It's lazy. — Matt De La Pena