Downtowner Motel Quotes

#1. Here a few poor and stunted flowers stood with drooping heads, like a convent of consumptive girls, waiting for a ray of sunlight to dry out their leaves already half-rotten with the damp.

Theophile Gautier

#2. During long periods of history, the mode of human sense perception changes with humanity's entire mode of existence. The manner in which human sense perception is organized, the medium in which it is accomplished, is determined not only by nature but by historical circumstances as well

Walter Benjamin

#3. When I'm singing the blues, I'm singing life.

Etta James

#4. To live with the terrible truths about ourselves is the only way of not living them out. A need denied has infinitely more power than a need accepted.

Jo Coudert

#5. It is time to put policy ahead of politics and success ahead of the status quo. It is time for a new strategy to produce what we need: a stable Iraq government that takes over for its own people so our troops can finish their job.

Hillary Clinton

#6. Riches are not only measure with monetary value.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#7. These are the words I want on my gravestone: that I was a helper, and that I danced.

Anne Lamott