Dessa Darling Quotes

#1. The question isn't whether or not to censor artists who espouse misogynistic views. The question is whether or not we support them as listeners and consumers.

Dessa Darling

#2. When he first stepped out of the car and walked towards the door where I stood waiting, I saw a man I liked. In his writing he is flamboyant, virile, animal, magnificent. He's a man whom life makes drunk, I thought. He is like me.

Anais Nin

#3. And I'll tell you all the things I have in my head, millions, myriads - the won't stir by day, only by dark on the river.

Virginia Woolf

#4. At their core, misogyny and racism are very similar modes of thinking. Both diminish and disrespect a class of people based on a trait that is wholly distinct from their ideas, their carriage and their conduct.

Dessa Darling

#5. Once we start worrying too often or too deeply about what certain individuals and what certain groups think about us, then we might start selling our souls for the sake of expediency. I suggest if that day ever comes, then the press has had it.

Otis Chandler

#6. I love the holiday season, almost as much as I love touching myself in front of orphans.

Zach Braff

#7. We always feel anger longer than we feel hurt.

Seneca.

#8. Me: "This is obviously a clog. How about I take it apart and check the internal tubing?" NASA: (after five hours of deliberation) "No. You'll fuck it up and die." So I took it apart.

Andy Weir

#9. It is my prejudice against everything that turns out well that has given me a taste for reading history.

Emil Cioran

#10. To deny that music powerfully influences our thoughts and conduct is either ignorant or a deliberate lie. Anyone who listens to music has been moved by it. It's music, that's the point.

Dessa Darling

#11. You've been here before, you already know how it goes, you chose this, you know, it's supposed to be over

Dessa Darling

#12. If hours did not hang heavy, what would become of scandal?

George Bancroft

#13. One must know and recognize not merely the direct but the secret power of the word.

Knut Hamsun

#14. so, does the destination matter? Or is it the path we take? I declare that no accomplishment has substance nearly as great as the road used to achieve it. We are not creatures of destinations. It is the journey that shapes us.

Brandon Sanderson

#15. Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life.

Potter Stewart