Defeaning Quotes

#1. The lawn mower attends with defeaning shudder to the tonsure; a light odor of fresh hay intoxicates the air; the leveled grass finds again a bristling infancy; but the bite of the blades reveals unevenness, mangy clearings, yellow patches.

Italo Calvino

#2. We made love on the living room floor with the noise in the background of a televised war and in that defeaning pleasure i thought i heard someone say if we walk away they'll walk away

Conor Oberst

#3. Though mountains melt and oceans burn,
The gifts of love shall still return.

Rosamund Hodge

#4. Nothing is more pleasant than to baffle people. The

Tristan Tzara

#5. The best meetings get real work done. When your people learn that your meetings actually accomplish something, they will stop making excuses to be elsewhere.

Larry Constantine

#6. Composing is what I love most from what I do. Each genre has a unique expression that you cannot supplant with another. All the records co-inspire each other though they are not tied conceptually in any way to another.

Serj Tankian

#7. To lose yourself in a book is the desire of the bookworm. I mean to be taken. That is my desire.

Fran Lebowitz

#8. Tobacco farmers would say, "Look, I'm just trying to make a living and feed my family." Nevertheless, tobacco is incredibly harmful and kills people.

William Davis

#9. I grew up in a very modest house. We were poor-we lived on the poverty level. We all got jobs as young kids.

Chely Wright

#10. I have supped full with horrors.

William Shakespeare

#11. But I do not remember ever having seen a newspaper in the house; and, most certainly, that privation did not render us less industrious, happy, or free.

William Cobbett

#12. A life well-lived or a life lived well? The placement of words really does change the connotation.

Carol Morgan

#13. I could run 200 yards at a stretch, I could duck between players, I felt free to make plays that suited me best. It wasn't like football then and basketball today, where coaches tell you what foot to put down.

Jim Brown

#14. And Louis is weak. Let him give an inch, and some Cromwell will appear.

Hilary Mantel

#15. I'm frightened all the time. But I never let it stop me. Never!

Georgia O'Keeffe