Quotes of: Messed-up Keyword

Growing up in the suburbs of Chicago, the color of my skin and my rather peculiar background as an Ethiopian immigrant delineated the border of my life and friendships. I learned quickly how to stand alone.

Dinaw Mengestu

Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention without having to actually show up somewhere... You don't have to dress up, for instance, and you can't hear them boo you right away.

Anne Lamott

I wanted to raise the voice of a lot of the people that I knew growing up, and this was, for the most part, poor people who had extraordinary dreams but also very amazing obstacles.

Edwidge Danticat

One thing that is almost always said to me is, I grew up with you. They are meeting me and feel that they actually grew up with me. I was with them during their play hours and thinking hours. I was a part of their childhoods. That's one of the most a...

Mark Goddard

Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected.

Charles Baudelaire

I am able to write musically about the visual. I can pick up tones, I can pick up themes. And I find visual art is a wonderful launching-off place.

Lawrence Weschler

The only line that's wrong in Shakespeare is 'holding a mirror up to nature.' You hold a magnifying glass up to nature. As an actor you just enlarge it enough so that your audience can identify with the situation. If it were a mirror, we would have n...

Montgomery Clift

It takes a strong person to stand up to his or her fate and overcome the obstacles that stand in the way of freedom and success, but I believe in you.

The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure

...it saddens me that she has to grow up and make friends with humans. I hear the future coming for her. Stomp, stomp, stomp.

All Good Children

It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.

Anne of Green Gables

Zoos are becoming facsimiles - or perhaps caricatures - of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies toward nature were pursued, we would need no zoos at all.

Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist

I hate that leaders have the power to rule over the weak, transforming them into something they are not. But is that really true? Or just an excuse we use to be weak and not stand up for what is right?

Aurum

Who knows, he may grow up to be President someday, unless they hang him first!" Aunt Polly about Tom Sawyer

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny.

The Hippopotamus Pool

The best way to wake up is with coffee and an erection. The cool part is one can stir the other.

I love Blue Ribbon Coffee

With a hangover and with fear, it is difficult to put a helmet on your head.

If I Die in a Combat Zone: Box Me Up and Ship Me Home

When we take life for granted, we’re assholes. Every day we wake up and the world’s still turning- that’s a great day.

Incubi

The road was so dimly lighted. There we;re no highway signs to guide. But they made up their minds, If all roads were blind, They wouldn't give up 'til they died....

Infinity + One

I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad.

It's Kind of a Funny Story

His life was gentle; and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN!

Julius Caesar

How the Hell is it we go to pick up Jenna Jameson and end up with the fucking chick from those Kill Bill movies?

Jesus Saves, Satan Invests