Flint Rasmussen Quotes

#1. You have the right to be offended or not to be offended.

John Bartlett

#2. Vegetarians and vegans can be incredibly annoying. Gene has a joke: How can you tell if someone is a vegan? Just wait ten minutes and they'll tell you.

Graeme Simsion

#3. I thought myself sufficiently shrewd to make whatever decisions I wanted to make, and then to be able to sufficiently steer those decisions away from the rather dark and nasty places they would naturally take me. And I stand oddly perplexed that suddenly everything around me is dark and nasty.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#4. What is writing, no matter how lavish the pieces, if it says nothing of the truth, cares little for the heart, and is merely subservient to the pleasure of showing one's brilliance.

Muriel Barbery

#5. The press gave me a voice too quickly, and that could have unsettled a man who had every right to feel he should be in control of the thing he had created.

Alison Moyet

#6. A poem is not a pop-tart.

Martin Espada

#7. Just as any work can be made into a miserable bore, any vocation can be a source of joy

Eric Greitens

#8. A different world can be created or re-created-but not until we stop enshrining the economic values of invisible labor, infinite and obsessive growth, and a slow environmental suicide.

Gloria Steinem

#9. It was an epiphany, the kind only a horrible trauma can induce.

Jacquelyn Mitchard

#10. As a woman of a certain age - and really, ever since I hit puberty and my baby-making parts were suddenly subject to public debate - I've been told over and over again that I will 'change my mind' about not wanting kids.

Jen Kirkman