"If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down, these women together ought to be able to turn it right side up again."
Sojourner Truth(11/18/1797 – 11/26/1883)
US abolitionist
"If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down, these women together ought to be able to turn it right side up again."
Sojourner Truth
"No, madam, he's decomposing."
W. S. Gilbert
"A little kindness from person to person is better than a vast love for all humankind."
Richard Dehmel
"You can't sweep people off their feet if you can't be swept off your own."
Clarence Day
"I am one of those unfortunates to whom death is less hideous than explanations."
Wyndham Lewis
"I don't think we had better go into the minute secrets of the campaign, so far as I know them, because I see the reporters are present, who are taking it all down."
Chester Allen Arthur
"I could eat alphabet soup and sh*t better lyrics."
Johnny Mercer
"If you're looking for youth, you're looking for longevity, just take a dose of rock 'n' roll. It keeps you going. Just like the caffeine in your coffee. Rock 'n' roll is good for the soul, for the well being, for the psyche, for your everything. I love it. I can't even picture being without rock 'n' roll."
Hank Ballard
"A word after a word after a word is power."
Margaret Atwood
"People thought I was dead. But I wasn't. I was just directing The A-Team."
David Hemmings
"We're all nothing but unified arrangements of atoms and particles, drifting around, enjoying consciousness every now and then for a second or so before splitting up to become bits and pieces of trees and stars and french fries."
Alan Dean Foster
"Love thy neighbor as yourself, but choose your neighborhood."
Louise Lester Beal
"I don't think I would ever consider autoerotic asphyxiation unless maybe someone broke into my house and was strangling me anyway."
Kevin Nealon
"I would kill the clone. That would be my first response."
Elizabeth Perkins
"My life is so full of surprises, nothing surprises me any more."
Kim Wilde
"We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough."
Niels Bohr
"The century which we are entering can be and must be the century of the common man."
Henry Agard Wallace
"A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him."
Man Ray
"You hear about the Duke Ellingtons, the Jimmie Luncefords, and the Fletcher Hendersons, but people sometimes forget that jazz was not only built in the minds of the great ones, but on the backs of the ordinary ones."
Cab Calloway
"Perhaps I just didn't know how to compose 'dark' music. Lenny Bernstein always said my music sounded postcoital."
Paul Bowles