Demoting Quotes

#1. To set their sufferings alongside the sufferings of another people was to compare them (which hell was worse?), demoting Sarajevo's martyrdom to a mere instance.

Susan Sontag

#2. Ambiguity around ambiguity is forgivable in an unpublished poet and expected of an arts student on the pull: for a professional comedian demoting himself to the role of 'thinker', with stadiums full of young people hanging on his every word, it won't really do.

Robert Webb

#3. Books, Manuals, Directives, Regulations. The geometries that circumscribe your working life draw norrower and norrower until nothing fits inside them anymore.

Lord Byron

#4. As I remember, the first real poem I wrote was about the wheat fields between Spokane and Pullman, to the south.

Carolyn Kizer

#5. I had a job when I was 15 working at a supermarket, and I knocked over a stack of plastic coffee cups. In my anger, I threw one at a concrete wall, and it rebounded back into my head and cut my head open. Stupidest way to get a scar, but it's one that I have.

Antony Starr

#6. My mom worked as a housekeeper, and I saw her relationship with her employers - how on the one hand she spent more time with these women than with a lot of her friends, and how in certain ways they were friends. But then they weren't.

Jesmyn Ward

#7. A Unitarian is a person who believes in at most one God.

Alfred North Whitehead

#8. Every day I woke up without Lawson beside me, I grew bitterer and hated him a little more.

Danielle Jamie

#9. Ah! the clock is always slow; it is later than you think.

Robert W. Service

#10. The real solution is to improve the incomes of the poor and provide their children with decent education.

Carol Bellamy

#11. How're we gonna bring the big hag round?" said Big Yan.
"I heard where ye has to put someone's heid between their legs," said Rob doubtfully.
Daft Wullie sighed and drew his sword. "Sounds a wee bit drastic tae me," he said, "but if someone will help me hold her steady-

Terry Pratchett