Boring Assignment Quotes

#1. It has been a woman's task throughout history to go on believing in life when there was almost no hope.

Margaret Mead

#2. Freedom is based on truth, and no man is completely free as long as any part of his belief is based on error.

Nathan Eldon Tanner

#3. Really, Sage? A date?"
I sighed. "Yes, Adrian. A date."
"A real date. Not, like, doing homework together," he added.
"I mean like where you go out to a movie or something. And a
movie that's not part of a school assignment. Or about something boring."
"A real date.

Richelle Mead

#4. I haven't had an alcoholic drink in 22 years, but when I did drink I'd go for either Canadian whisky or Budweiser. Sometimes both. For a long time I used to think "Hey you, get off the floor!" was my name.

Alice Cooper

#5. It takes more effort to avoid the truth than it does to face it.

Robert J. Braathe

#6. The NIH syndrome (Not Invented Here) is a disease.

Linus Torvalds

#7. Time takes life away
and gives us memory, gold with flame,
black with embers.

Adam Zagajewski

#8. South Africa, it's like the little asshole of the whole world - it's, like, the bottom. It's, like, in the dark depths of the hallway.

Watkin Tudor Jones

#9. It's just that only now are women coming around, and when someone as striking as Alanis or Sheryl Crow comes out, the public just needs something to compare it to.

Meredith Brooks

#10. Cats of all kinds weave in and out of the text; Burroughs has clearly taken to them in a big way in his old age and seems torn between a fear they will betray him into sentimentality and a resigned acceptance that a man can't be ironic all the time.

Angela Carter

#11. If you act like something's too hard, it will be, he said. You got to believe it's possible.

Joyce Maynard

#12. Words have their own hierarchy, their own protocol, their own artistic titles, their own plebeian stigmas.

Jose Saramago

#13. Talk not of love: thou never knew'st its force.

Joseph Addison

#14. Every once in a while a voice appears that cuts through it all. As Hemmingway said, 'the truth has a certain ring to it.' When you hear the voice of Billy Vaughn you will hear the voice of an American manthe type of American who produces a Navy SEAL.

Michael Savage