Declawed Quotes

#1. I think women in pop have been declawed and defanged, and they're just meant to look pretty and sing pretty.

Shirley Manson

#2. But even a declawed tiger still has teeth..." -Anya

Gabrielle Zevin

#3. I want to hear an alternative viewpoint, and I don't want girls to be defanged and declawed and pretty and mute.

Shirley Manson

#4. As a species we're fundamentally insane. Put more than two of us in a room, we pick sides and start dreaming up reasons to kill one another. Why do you think we invented politics and religion?

Stephen King

#5. No man's an island. Not even the ones that think they are. Especially not them.

Mark Lawrence

#6. Be creative. Use unconventional thinking. And have the guts to carry it out.

Lee Iacocca

#7. Nonfiction writers are second-class citizens, the Ellis Island of literature. We just can't quite get in. And yes, it pisses me off.

William Styron

#8. For the first time Saya understood how people can grow accustomed to war. Intensified by the stark contrast between life and death, fleeting moments of joy such as these could make one almost mad with happiness.

Noriko Ogiwara

#9. The Internet is not kind to established institutions.

Jamais Cascio

#10. Every moment is all the things that have happened before and all the things that are going to happen, and ... the way all those things look at one point on their way along a line.

Deborah Eisenberg

#11. She went to the AutoChef, programmed a vitamin smoothie. And was shocked when that's exactly what she got.

J.D. Robb

#12. The job of a writer is not to convey emotion but to invoke it.

Eric T. Benoit

#13. Spanish children are too often ill-cared for, but despite the abuses of ignorant motherhood and fatherhood, such vivid, vivacious, bewitching little people as they are!

Katharine Lee Bates

#14. My effectiveness is best placed in solving problems through federal solutions.

George Nethercutt

#15. I don't like ferocious irony but rather the kind that vacillates between disappointment and hope. Okay?

Enrique Vila-Matas