Applauses Song Quotes

#1. I love the idea of the 'vignette,' which is associated with the decorative, illustrative, small, and thus with the feminine, and thus easily maligned. I mean, Emily Dickinson wrote vignettes, right?

Kate Bernheimer

#2. As far as rap goes, I grew up in Hollis, Queens, so early influences were people like Run DMC and LL Cool J.

Ja Rule

#3. I'm always trolling for trivia.

Lynn Abbey

#4. I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many things, but he is not rational.

Oscar Wilde

#5. She laughed. 'See? You can do philosophy!'
He rolled his eyes and shook his head. 'Don't insult me.

Alex Scarrow

#6. In the fight between you and the world, back the world.

Franz Kafka

#7. As we took the court for the second half, I made a secret now to myself that I would never listen to a single thing that Mel Thompson said to me again. I would obey him and honor him and follow him, but I would not let him touch the core of me again. He was my coach, but I was my master.

Pat Conroy

#8. Unable to make babies, they make bombs instead. Men menstruate by shedding other people's blood.

Lucy Ellmann

#9. My mind's cries tell me that everything on earth is tragic. My heart's smiles tell me that everything on earth is magic.

Sri Chinmoy

#10. Sometimes, you can see more than me, but you pretend to know less so that I don't feel intimidated by you. I do the same for you. We do not feel superior when the other is vulnerable; or inferior when we feel helpless. This is what sustains our relationship.

Devdutt Pattanaik

#11. My mission is to become part of Time Inc. and push the business forward.

Laura Lang

#12. From the loving example of one family a whole State may become loving, and from its courtesies, courteous; while from the ambition and perverseness of the one man the whole State may be thrown into rebellious disorder. Such is the nature of influence.

Confucius

#13. The park was a scruffy patch of grass, muddy in winter and dusty in summer, set about with a few dozen trees, a bandstand, and a pond on which swam a family of depraved and malevolent ducks.

Philip Pullman