Adult Subjects Quotes

#1. Then turn your eyes back on me,
and tell me that Cathy and I are still children to be treated with condescension, and are incapable of understanding adult subjects.

V.C. Andrews

#2. Her only comfort was to curse each searing day with a creative lexicon she didn't know she possessed.

Bentley Little

#3. I'll fill in the missing voids of your heart with parts of mine," he whispers while his cock still twitches inside me.

K. Webster

#4. Noronha's Laws

1. No man works harder than he must.
2. The joy of living, lies in making little things big.
3. Try never to do what you do not want to do. The secret of a happy old age is in never doing what you do not want to do.

R.P. Noronha

#5. We seek to find peace of mind in the word, the formula, the ritual. The hope is illusion.

Benjamin Cardozo

#6. From an early age onward, it was said that 'Ingmar has no sense of humor.'

Ingmar Bergman

#7. Everything is gestation and then birthing.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#8. If you fall in love, you feel forever young.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#9. As I read more and more fairy tales as an adult, I found massive collusion between their 'subjects' and those in my fiction: childhood, nature, sexuality, transformation. I realized that it wasn't by accident that I was drawn to their narrative structure and motifs.

Kate Bernheimer

#10. Unless we know ourselves to be full of pride, ambition, concupiscence, weakness, wretchedness and unrighteousness, we are truly blind. And if someone knows all this and does not desire to be saved, what can be said of him?

Blaise Pascal

#11. Yeah, I've worked with a couple of female directors, now, and I think that they're amazing. As good or better than guy directors.

Alia Shawkat

#12. It's unarguable to say that every one of us has been moved by the beauty of what I have called snapshots, but for photographers they are charms and proverbs, and like lightening or wild strawberries ...

Tod Papageorge

#13. To choose art means to turn one's back on the world, or at least on certain of its distractions.

Melvin Maddocks

#14. Saul wanted to destroy his best warrior, David, instead of helping David destroy his real enemies. Lesson: The very person you are fighting against may be your greatest asset.

Robin M. Bertram

#15. TARIFF, n. A scale of taxes on imports, designed to protect the domestic producer against the greed of his consumer.

Ambrose Bierce

#16. You wouldn't be able to sleep through what I'd do to you.

Roni Loren