Challenging Tongue Quotes

#1. The fossil-fuel-based development model has not benefitted all people and those who have benefitted least are now suffering great harm in the face of climate change.

Mary Robinson

#2. Every soul is a story shelved away in an infinite library in the sky.

Karen Amanda Hooper

#3. When she was in Djibouti and I was in Aden, and I used to go and see her for twenty-four hours, she managed to multiply the misunderstandings between us until there were exactly sixty minutes before I had to leave; sixty minutes, just long enough to make you feel the seconds passing one by one.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#4. I was a semiotics major at Brown, and there's this idea that stories are better, books are better, and movies are better if they cocked you off your axis and you were completely disoriented and you'd really have to rethink everything. Nobody has that experience, actually.

Ira Glass

#5. Some things are created to be together.

Ally Condie

#6. To win, you have to lose, and then get pissed off.

Joe Namath

#7. People can say you're fat because you're filling a void, or you eat for all these emotional reasons. I said, 'I don't need to focus on this anymore. It doesn't matter why I'm fat. Let's fix it.'

Stephanie Klein

#8. I'd be happy to stay single now because I've always been in relationships. For the first time ever I can do what I want, when I want, with who I want, without answering to anyone.

Carol Vorderman

#9. She's a monstrously perfect result of the system: the completest proof of its triumph

Edith Wharton

#10. I tend to pack light but still keep a large bag because I love to shop. For each destination I travel to, I like to buy something that the country or city is known for such as olive oil, truffle, jewelry, etc. I also like to buy perfumes because the smell brings me back to the memory of my travels.

Jacqueline MacInnes Wood

#11. What is being said in media in other parts of the world is very different from what we've been told in this country throughout these years between September 11 and today.

Bianca Jagger

#12. I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born.

Oriana Fallaci

#13. Immature artists imitate.
Mature artists steal.

Lionel Trilling