Backtalk Quotes

#1. Schoolteacher didn't take advice from Negroes. The information they offered he called backtalk and developed a variety of corrections (which he recorded in his notebook) to reeducate them.

Toni Morrison

#2. Shut up with the backtalk, because if I wanted lip from you, I'd sit on your face.

L.A. Casey

#3. Although, I admit, I desire,
Occasionally, some backtalk
From the mute sky, I can't honestly complain:
A certain minor light may still
Lean incandescent
Out of kitchen table or chair
As if a celestial burning took
Possession of the most obtuse objects now and then

Sylvia Plath

#4. Carl constantly told horror stories of cursing and beatings from his father and the twenty-four-hour blackout screaming of his alcoholic, pill-popping mother. He used his trauma like a caution sign for what he could do if I didn't silence my backtalk.

Maggie Young

#5. I refuse to act the way someone expects me to.

Madonna Ciccone

#6. If you cross a line and nothing happens, the line loses meaning.

Lauren Oliver

#7. True wealth comes from within the heart which is the most valuable masterpiece you have that's underneath your skin

Martellis Thurmand

#8. Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything.

Laurence Sterne

#9. One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.

Larry Gelbart

#10. Everything is from absorption!

Deyth Banger

#11. I had been terrified of Halloween my entire adult life. Loved it as a kid, but the minute I got out of college, there were little kids at my door demanding candy, which, No. 1, I couldn't afford, and, No. 2, if I had candy, it would be mine.

Jen Lancaster

#12. I'm spouting too much sense for you to understand

Patrick Rothfuss

#13. The only shot I ALWAYS miss, is the one I don't take!

Wayne Gretzky

#14. Woman, you got a mouth on you."

"It's not 1955 any longer. Women swear as much as men."

"I miss women who talk about women things."

"You're changing the subject. Keep it up and I'll talk about my period. That's a woman thing.

Edie Ramer

#15. We must restrict the anonymity behind which people hide to commit crimes. As citizens, we have a right to privacy. We have no such right to anonymity.

Edgar Bronfman Jr.

#16. When we speak of peace, we should not mean just the absence of war. True peace rests on the pillars of individual freedom, human rights, national self-determination, and respect for the rule of law.

Ronald Reagan