Clannish Quotes

#1. We have a lot of historical and religious baggage in our culture. It's ancient; we are clannish as a species. We like things to fit into boxes, and it's unfortunate because humans are unique and should be celebrated and embraced as such.

Sherri Saum

#2. An oversupply of national sentiment is not the problem in Somalia. The problem is a lack of it. The problem is an oversupply of sub-sub-clannish attitude.

Meles Zenawi

#3. I grew up in a world that was clannish - old Tasmanian-Irish families with big extended families.

Richard Flanagan

#4. No matter how much the inhabitants might try to hide it, there was a savagery about this island, a bloodlust and pride that bound every mother, father, and child in a clannish commitment to the hunt.

Nathaniel Philbrick

#5. First fill your heart with an abundance of love. Then let the light of your love enlighten the whole world.

Debasish Mridha

#6. She is a writer, what the fuck do you expect from her other than passion, truth and goddam soul?

Nikki Rowe

#7. To be honest, I used to hate shopping. I rarely left a store without crying, cursing my body, and swearing under my breath at the fashion industry.

Mary Lambert

#8. Anne, are you killed?' shrieked Diana, throwing herself on her knees beside her friend. 'Oh, Anne, dear Anne, speak just one word to me and tell me if you're killed.

L.M. Montgomery

#9. You're certain to get a decision in a trial.

John Barth

#10. Some would do just about anything for an exodus.

Michael L. Martin Jr.

#11. I stopped for a few seconds by the newspaper stand wondering whether to buy the two evening papers here, the two biggest publications. Reading them was like emptying a bag of trash over your head.

Karl Ove Knausgard

#12. The act of composition is a series of discoveries.

E.L. Doctorow

#13. If you really want to get along with somebody, let them be themselves.

Willie Nelson

#14. Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.

William James

#15. I loved my career as a model, and that evolved into being an actress.

Isabella Rossellini

#16. This must be Aleppo. Nothing to see, of course. Just a long, poor-lighted platform with loud furious altercations in Arabic going on somewhere. Two men below her window were talking French.

Agatha Christie

#17. If everyone's ready for a shot to start, except for one actor who's intent on getting to the bottom of their soul, it can be a bit annoying.

Ian Holm