Disembowels Quotes

#1. The stars dehisce.
By "stars" I mean, of course, tradition,
and by "tradition" I mean nothing at all.
A pronoun disembowels his antecedent.
Stop me if you've heard this one before.

Ben Lerner

#2. (..) she cried and cried and cried, there weren't any napkins nearby so I ripped the page from the book - "I don't speak. I'm sorry." - and used it to dry her cheeks, my explanation and apology ran down her face like mascara (..)

Jonathan Safran Foer

#3. Tyranny sets up its own echo-chamber.

Bruce Chatwin

#4. Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units.

Valerie Solanas

#5. My revulsion kicked in. Sexual domination, sure. Dishes, housework, even cooking for a man, all these for some weird reason repulsed me.

Cari Silverwood

#6. I can handle Evil, but I cannot handle Anticipation.

Gabbo De La Parra

#7. She felt grief move within her like a barefoot woman flitting through a dark house.

Thrity Umrigar

#8. I always wanted to be a film composer. So very early on I started collecting soundtracks and paying attention to how movie music works. Actually I'd like to have the opportunity to conduct for the rest of my life.

Alexandre Desplat

#9. I love 'Breaking Bad.' I'd watch Bryan Cranston read the phone book, for days.

Joel Kinnaman

#10. Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name.

William Wordsworth

#11. The Egyptians could run to Egypt, the Syrians into Syria. The only place we could run was into the sea, and before we did that we might as well fight.

Golda Meir

#12. I learned in America that Americans are into results. Americans don't care where you came from, what your family did, what school you graduated from. They care about if you can deliver the results. That's what makes America the country it is.

Mark Burnett

#13. its a vampire kiss

Ellen Schreiber

#14. In comedy it helps if there's a friendly atmosphere on the set.

Chris O'Dowd

#15. I think we have to keep working enormously hard to see that every single Indigenous child - every Australian child - has true equality of opportunity. We've got to work harder at it. I think, you know, the heartland issue for us is the gap; the gap in life expectancy in this country.

Quentin Bryce

#16. Proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear.

Catherine Of Siena