Fogey Quotes

#1. Now it's become sort of a - you know, just sort of a casual thing, and you can vote any time at all. It doesn't increase turnout. It hasn't increased turnout, really. And I don't think it's a healthy development. I sound like an old fogey here.

Judy Woodruff

#2. Teens' use of social media is significantly shaped by race and class, geography and cultural background [boyd, danah , "An Old Fogey's Analysis of a Teenager's View on Social Media," Medium, January 12, 2015].

Danah Boyd

#3. We have almost reached the point where praise of rationality is held to mark a man as an old fogey regrettably surviving from a bygone age.

Bertrand Russell

#4. Not only am I trying to be a daddy, but also a friend, not be the old fogey that's slowing everybody else down ... not for a while, at least.

Josh Turner

#5. Do-it-yourself morality, informed by personal passion rather than old-fogey morality, is the new norm.

Anonymous

#6. The Queen of Terrasen was in a fighting pit in the slums of Rifthold.

Sarah J. Maas

#7. Idealists are either blind or clowns; because they think it is possible to have a beautiful world with asshole creatures like humans.

M.F. Moonzajer

#8. What?" he demanded testily.
Trammell raised his eyebrows. "I didn't say anything."
"You're thinking something, though. You've got that shit-eating smirk on your face."
"Why would anyone smirk while they eat shit?" Trammell asked rhetorically.

Linda Howard

#9. He knew Carolina de Silva.

Meg Cabot

#10. And you look more beautiful when you blush.

Avijeet Das

#11. Even if this world is nothing but a story, even if we exist only to entertain someone far beyond our reach, I don't think this world is ridiculous!

Jun Mochizuki

#12. Anger was better than fear. Fear was a damp cold mess, but anger had an edge. She could use it.

Terry Pratchett

#13. Peace and Love, get high and fly with the dove.

Barbara Kingsolver

#14. She spoke to him of her problems, and that made him forget his own. She told him that he was intelligent, thoughtful, becoming, and deeply magnetic - everything he wanted so badly for her to see in him. Attention is the greatest gift when you're too afraid to pay it to yourself, the wind ruminates.

Samuel Armen

#15. Love is so unpredictable. Sometimes you'll know a man for years and then one day, boom! Suddenly you see him in a different way. And other times, it's that first date, that first moment. That's what makes it so great.

Sarah Dessen

#16. Education is the foundation of success. Just as scholastic skills are vitally important, so are financial skills and communication skills.

Robert Kiyosaki

#17. If anyone should have the right or need to carry a gun, it should be the African-American community.

Philip Smith

#18. What was that?" he whispered, eyes narrowed. There was no mistaking the amusement in the tilt to his lips, though. "Very bad kitty ...

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#19. Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.

Alice Munro