Gatepost Quotes

#1. Nanny's words made Janie's kiss across the gatepost seem like a manure pile after a rain

Zora Neale Hurston

#2. Actually, have you ever noticed how a Negro, in particular down south, where they're pretty close to the soil, personifies MEST? The gatepost and the wagon and the whip and anything around there-a hat. They talk to them, you know. "What'sa mattuh wi' you hat?" They imbue them with personality.

L. Ron Hubbard

#3. I think, actually, that none of us understands anyone else very well, because we're all too shy to show what matters the most. If you ask me, it's a major design flaw. We ought to be able to say, Here, look what I am. I think it would be quite a relief.

Elizabeth Berg

#4. And where two raging fires meet together, they do consume the thing that feeds their fury.

William Shakespeare

#5. Anger has been a really big deal for women: how can we express it without feeling that, as the physically weaker sex, we won't get killed. The alpha-woman was burned at the stake and had her head chopped off in days of old.

Alanis Morissette

#6. Nobody ever said I'm a simple personality.

Rabih Alameddine

#7. I spend some time every week in independent bookshops all over the country and what I see is inspiring!

Sara Sheridan

#8. It's naturally kind of humiliating and strange to have a microphone; when you're young you just make movies, you don't worry about all the peripheral stuff that comes with it.

Don Hertzfeldt

#9. I have to say that The Simpsons comes from a huge number of great writers headed by Al Jean, the show-runner, and the work that they do is really fantastic. It's a blast just to sit around with them in the writers' room and listen to all the filthy jokes that will never get on the air.

Matt Groening

#10. I like this interstate as much as the next guy, but the farther south we go, the hotter it gets, and I'm already sweating like a whore in church.

John Green

#11. Man becomes not the lord and master of all creation but he is its servant.

Mahatma Gandhi