Wondaland Quotes & Sayings

Who wants a bag of bones?" he said, with absolute sincerity. "I don't want to hurt myself on the sharp edges of the woman I'm bedding. — Charlaine Harris

The biggest threat to global stability is the potential for food crises in poor countries to cause government collapse. — Lester R. Brown

If I were brave enough to say so, I'd like to think that I had written some poems that people are not going to forget. — Peter Davison

New Rule: Gay marriage won't lead to dog marriage. It is not a slippery slope to rampant inter-species coupling. When women got the right to vote, it didn't lead to hamsters voting. No court has extended the equal protection clause to salmon. And for the record, all marriages are "same sex" marriages. You get married, and every night, it's the same sex. — Bill Maher

Amiel was always sure to spend the holidays with me. I assume it's to prevent me from feeling like the typical chick on the side that never gets the holidays. — Jessica N. Watkins

It isn't just dictators, power-mad politicians, kings of high finance, and drug-addled rock stars who are vulnerable to abuses of power; the power paradox can undermine the social life of any of us at any moment. Whether we are at work, out with friends, in encounters with strangers, or with our children, the very skills that enable us to gain respect and esteem are corrupted when we are feeling powerful. — Dacher Keltner

Centuries have not worm-eaten the solidity of this ancient furniture of the mind. — Isaac D'Israeli

Put your hands on your hip, let your back bone slip. Do the Watusi, like my little Lucy. — Wilson Pickett

Societies are not trapped by their pasts and freely borrow ideas and institutions from each other. — Francis Fukuyama

I'm always thinking about young people first when I'm writing music. Whenever I can reach that young person and inspire them to go after their own dreams, start their own movement just like I did with Wondaland. Starting their own tribe and showing people that we are not all the same, we're not all monolithic. I think that's what it's all about for me. — Janelle Monae

I know it sounds Pollyannish and 'Kumbaya'-like, but I find that the more that you expose Americans to the diversity of what's going on in China and vice versa, the more people find that there is this broad middle path. And so I'm a strong advocate of intense visits and dialogue back and forth. — Dennis C. Blair

The script sits in front of you. The writer's translated into ink what is in his spirit and his soul and his mind. Bum. [Thumps table.] I come along, I pick it up, and the ink goes into my eyes, into my mind, into my body, flows around and that part starts to inhabit me. And I know a good part when I see one. — Peter O'Toole