Woodcocks Quotes & Sayings

The only person who should be able to make you cry like that is yourself. People can betray you all they want and you'll survive. Even if it hurts and a few tears come, it will be over soon. Betray yourself and everything inside of you will die. That's something worth crying about. Do you understand me? — Marilyn Grey

We live in a world that worships limitations — Tama J. Kieves

When I enter a library, when I enter the world of books, I feel the ghosts of the past on my shoulders urging me to speech. I hear Patrick Henry cry to the Burgsses, 'Is Life so dear, or Peace so sweet, to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?' I hear Sojourner Truth tell me that the hand that rocks the cradle can also rock the boat, and William Lloyd Garrison say, 'I am in earnest, I will not be silenced.' — Sara Paretsky

I always write the first and last song of an album first, and then the middle just kind of happens. — Bradford Cox

Disrespectful words cannot entirely be eaten, ever. Respect is a kind of Humpty Dumpty. All the king's horses can't put it all the way up again. — Charlotte Armstrong

I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary. — Victor Hugo

Man is a carnivorous production, And must have meals, at least one meal a day; He cannot live, like woodcocks, upon suction, But, like the shark and tiger, must have prey; Although his anatomical construction Bears vegetables, in a grumbling way, Your laboring people think beyond all question, Beef, veal, and mutton better for digestion. — Lord Byron

...Fei Xiaoton, the University of Chicago - trained Chinese sociologist, once observed, this nation is "a land without ghosts," a place where people are so busy with promises of progress that they have forgotten where they come from and who their ancestors were... — John Kuo Wei Tchen

Anyone can stay the same. It takes courage to change — John Assaraf

chasing silly rose leaves — Rudyard Kipling

I wish you a beautiful blessed Father's Day. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Do you hear yourself? This is what an Amazing fuck sounds like. — J.J. McAvoy

two people could keep a secret, as long as one of them was dead. — Kyle West