White Girl Wednesday Quotes & Sayings

If we got caught being in grandma's smaller room without her or without another adult being there, we were surely in for a good old-fashioned ass whipping, Kunta Kinte style. Grandma Bertha didn't play that shit. — Amina

I certainly didn't want to be in a punk rock band, because I had already been in a punk rock band. I wanted to be in a band that could do anything - like Led Zeppelin. — Jeff Ament

You must thank the gods for art, those of us who have been fortunate enough to stumble onto this means of venting our craziness, our meanness, our towering disgust. — Robert Crumb

If any movie people are watching this show, please, for me, have some respect. You wanna sell some tickets, act like you know what you're talking about. — Jeff Goldblum

All beings so far have created something beyond themselves; and do you want to be the ebb of this great flood and even go back to the beasts rather than overcome man? What is the ape to man? A laughingstock or a painful embarrassment. And man shall be just that for the overman: a laughingstock or a painful embarrassment ... — Friedrich Nietzsche

A light was on in the kitchen. His mother sat at the kitchen table, as still as a statue. Her hands were clasped together, and she stared fixatedly at a small stain on the tablecloth. Gregor remembered seeing her that way so many nights after his dad had disappeared. He didn't know what to say. He didn't want to scare her or shock her or ever give her any more pain.
So, he stepped into the light of the kitchen and said the one thing he knew she wanted to hear most in the world.
Hey, Mom. We're home. — Suzanne Collins

No matter how brilliant, amusing or intelligent the creek of abstraction, Dadaism, Minimalism and Conceptualism of the 20th century was, it didn't much affect the historical river of figuration. I predict that in 50 years and in 300 years, figurative art will still be strong and important. — Mark Kostabi

Don't apologize for what you think you did wrong. Apologize for what they think you did wrong. — David D. Burns

A paradox is something which tests your spiritual eyesight. — John Bailey

Thoughts fly and words go on foot. Therein lies all the drama of a writer. — Julien Green

We are all the products and victims of our own upbringing, until we reflect, refuse, and rebel. — Rawi Hage

People often mistake their imagination for their heart, & so often are convinced they are converted as soon as they start thinking of becoming converted. — Blaise Pascal

Grow the lawn and mow the lawn
always keep the TV on,
brush your teeth and kill the germs,
poison apples, poison worms. — Trenton Lee Stewart

I wanted to survive - not for my kind, but for trust, for friendship, for another being. (Eric) — Shannon A. Thompson