Clanked Quotes

#1. The file clanked against me, my stupid idea nobody would have gotten had I ever done it. You even wouldn't have gotten it, Ed, I thought, watching her go. It's why we broke up, so here it is. Ed, how could you?

Daniel Handler

#2. It was a bitter and biting iron-gray afternoon, that clanked like armor and was as cold as a frosty axehead.

Ardyth Kennelly

#3. It's as if a child with a brush and too much enthusiasm has been set free with a tin of black paint inside me.

Jenny Downham

#4. I believe in equality. Equality for everybody. No matter how stupid they are or how superior I am to them.

Steve Martin

#5. A liberal society stands on the proposition that we should all take seriously the idea that we might be wrong. This means we must place no one, including ourselves, beyond the reach of criticism; it means that we must allow people to err, even where the error offends and upsets, as it often will.

Jonathan Rauch

#6. I love the process of cracking the spine for the first time and slowly sinking into a book. That will soon seem old-fashioned, I'm sure, like the time of illuminated manuscripts.

Edwidge Danticat

#7. It is easier to talk about money
and much easier to talk about sex
than it is to talk about power. People who have it deny it; people who want it do not want to appear to hunger for it; and people who engage in its machinations do so secretly.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

#8. Chicken exits are self-sabotage. They give you a false explanation for why you don't have something you want.

Ali Vincent

#9. I played professional level sports. When you're playing for money, it's a whole other level.

Kurt Russell

#10. Catch on fire and people will come for miles to see you burn.

John Wesley

#11. Every day, the dispensing of existence ... Its face is fierce and distant and ancient.

Martin Amis

#12. I believe that the wolf can change everything, if he just want to change.

Deyth Banger

#13. The gurus come from the sickliest nation on earth to tell us how to live. And we pay them for it.

Edward Abbey

#14. When you're sure of what you're looking at, look harder.

Richard Powers