Yousay By Lauren Quotes & Sayings

Politics isn't about left versus right; it's about top versus bottom. — Jim Hightower

I was the first Chicano to write in complete sentences. — Gary Soto

I've always loved high style in low company. — Anita Loos

Didn't you have any sadistic nannies who told you these tales to keep you quiet and well behaved at night? Heavens, what's to become of the Empire if governesses have lost their touch for scaring the wits out of their girls? — Libba Bray

Hand
Grasps at hand, eye lights eye in good friendship,
And great hearts expand
And grow one in the sense of this world's life. — Robert Browning

One man excels in eloquence, another in arms. — Virgil

I received orders from Congress to proceed to Charleston in South Carolina, for the purpose of Co'operating with General Lincoln in the defense of that Capitol. — Abraham Whipple

True confession is not just an exchange of information; it also involves entering into the pain of the person we have hurt and entering into God's pain over sin. — John Ortberg

All soul food is southern food, but not all southern food is soul food. — Cassandra Harrell

A central part of the torturer's craft is to make his job easier by stripping the victim of protective dignity. — Jonathan Glover

All art does but consist in the removal of surplusage. — Walter Pater

As artists, it's tempting to forget the audience's needs. Too often, we're self-centered and self-indulgent in what we share with the world. We're prideful, only showing what we deem as perfect or what we think our peers will respect. — Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick

I'm a major feminist. There's a real politic in life, where I've been in rooms where real decisions are made, and it's a lot of powerful white men. There are women in those rooms, but not as many as there should be. — Courtney Love

I remember, for the first time, sitting down and consuming books in a matter of hours. This was such a new experience for me because reading, up until that point, had been such a struggle and source of stress. I think I just needed to find the right kind of stories with which I could identify. — John Corey Whaley

Mushy food is a form of sensory deprivation. In the same way that a dark, silent room will eventually drive you to hallucinate, the mind rebels against bland, single-texture foods, edibles that do not engage the oral device. — Mary Roach