Bluecollar Quotes

#1. The flash lights irritated the women's eyes, but in the sudden glare their faces, so empty of expression when they had sex, at last came alive, and I saw two bluecollar housewives who had ditched their husbands and aspired to the most bourgeois of lives.

J.G. Ballard

#2. Excuse our appearances. We are taking apart yesterday, to make way for tomorrow

Megan McCafferty

#3. I'll go do films for three or four months and then I can't wait to go home to LA. And I complain about LA left and right, but then I always end up wanting to go home, you know?

Tobey Maguire

#4. A deus ex machina will never appear in real life so you best make other arrangements.

Marisha Pessl

#5. How miraculous it was, noted Diogenes, that whenever one felt that sort of urge, one could readily masturbate. But conversely how disheartening that one could not simply rub one's stomach when hungry.

David Markson

#6. I was going to shave it. It went in two parts. I got a bob first but it kept falling all over my face. Then it was off, short. The main reason it was long was because my mother cut it short when I was little and I was trying to make up for that.

Cathy Freeman

#7. Investing is about making probabilistic decisions with limited information about an unknowable future. The variables are well known, as are the possible outcomes.

Barry Ritholtz

#8. I'm incapable of writing without social commentary. I like to think that it's integrated and not really heavy handedly didactic.

John Shirley

#9. A full heart has more room than an empty one.

John Kramer

#10. So let the mind flow like water. Face life with a calm and quiet mind and everything in life will be calm and quiet.

Thich Thien-An

#11. The Word of God I think of as a straight edge, which shows up our own crookedness. We can't really tell how crooked our thinking is until we line it up with the straight edge of Scripture.

Elisabeth Elliot

#12. My father was not really into popular music; I had to learn about that for myself.

Todd Rundgren

#13. Never trust anyone who uses the word party as a verb but never trust anyone who would rather be grammatically correct than to party.

Tom Robbins