Betoken Quotes

#1. The emancipation of today displays itself mainly in cigarettes and shorts ... painted lips and nails, and the return of trailing skirts and other absurdities of dress which betoken the slave-woman's intelligent companionship.

Sylvia Pankhurst

#2. It's important me as a musician and also as an occasional show goer to feel the presence of a band on stage, to hear a PA reverberating and slapping off the walls, the push and pull of an audience, the blood, sweat, and heat. It's a primal thing in a way.

Jacob Bannon

#3. Do nothing that is not natural - and ritual is natural - and all will be for the best.

Gore Vidal

#4. For mankind, speech with a capital S is especially meaningful and committing, more than the content communicated. The outcry of the newborn and the sound of the bells are fraught with mystery more than the baby's woeful face or the venerable tower.

Paul Goodman

#5. Oratory, like the drama, abhors lengthiness; like the drama, it must keep doing. It avoids, as frigid, prolonged metaphysical soliloquy. Beauties themselves, if they delay or distract the effect which should be produced on the audience, become blemishes.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#6. It's never the next brief, it's ALWAYS THIS brief .

Paul Arden

#7. You don't really care about the trials of tomorrow, rather lay awake in a bed full of sorrow

Kid Cudi

#8. I would really like that, Betsy, to cheer and jeer and hoot and root alongside a band of brothers. I would love that. But do you have any idea how much attention you have to pay to a Red Sox game? Even a regular-season Red Sox game?

Joshua Ferris

#9. There is an unavoidable tendency to become literally the embodiment of that quality upon which one most constantly thinks.

James Allen

#10. Marriage is a team effort. Both of us share that philosophy.

Nick Lachey

#11. Dozens of school districts forwent federal funding rather than integrate their schools.

Isabel Wilkerson

#12. A man needs a private life. With no ability to have a private life, one thing leads to another, and before you know it we have Bill and Monica. We need to get real about things. Humans are humans. Why should we expect more?

Jack Nicholson

#13. If you want someone badly enough, you'll do anything to have them.

Paula Hawkins

#14. None can cure their harms by wailing them.

William Shakespeare

#15. Some tears belong to us because we are unfortunate; others, because we are humane; many, because we are mortal. But most are caused by our being unwise. It is these last only that of necessity produce more.

Leigh Hunt