Backlasher Quotes

#1. I felt that the biological clock was some myth to keep me from doing what I wanted to do. And so I rebelled against it in the '90s. I thought it was a backlasher, some sort of faulty data. But it's real. I'm glad I woke up before my body was just like 'uh-uh.'

Lili Taylor

#2. Nothing could do that to them, that's what they used to whisper as they sat on the back stairs, in the dark and the dust, as if desire were a matter of personal choice.

Alice Hoffman

#3. The moment a man begins to talk about technique that's proof that he is fresh out of ideas.

Raymond Chandler

#4. I was a big 'Charlie Brown' fan as a kid.

Trey Parker

#5. There is a sociology of horses, as well as a psychology. It is most evident in the world of horse racing, where many horses are gathered together, where year after year, decade after decade, they do the same, rather simple thing - run in races and try to win.

Jane Smiley

#6. No, you're not shooting me down, kiddo ... Because I'm not really trying. When I do try, you'll know it. And then you'll throw the whole damn rulebook out the window.

Karina Halle

#7. You didn't tell Summer about it, did you?"
"What?" Gage scoffs. "Yeah, telling your girlfriend the Angel of Death might visit her if some switch is flipped is normal pillow talk.

Laura Kreitzer

#8. Writing is like masturbation. It might not bear fruit, but it certainly does feel good.

Charles Delmar

#9. We are getting what we paid for, and if we want something else, we are going to have to pay for it, in work, sweat, and sacrifice.

Rousas John Rushdoony

#10. Making a sound that was both a laugh and a sob, Kellan stared into his son's eyes. "Hey, little man," he whispered. "I'm your dad, and I love you ... so much." Voice quavering, he added, "I'm so glad you're here.

S.C. Stephens

#11. While being called beautiful is extremely flattering, I would much rather be noticed for my work as an actress.

Halle Berry

#12. They belonged to the long and honorable human tradition that had spawned the Luddites, the flat-earthers, various bible-thumping faithies, the scientographers, and the back-earthies, not to mention all the other forms of the true believers that had parasitized human society over the millennia.

L.E. Modesitt Jr.

#13. Money originated with royalty and slavery, it has nothing to do with democracy or the struggle of the empoverished enslaved majority.

Aristotle.

#14. In polite society what you say to an attractive woman who is dressed in a way that makes you understand the power of biology is, "You look nice.

Joe R. Lansdale

#15. Nineteenth-century English literature I know; 19th-century sewage systems, not so much.

Glen Duncan