Genetic Defect Quotes

#1. I don't want kids."
"Why?"
"My family has a genetic defect and I don't want to pass it on."
"What kind of defect?"
"We're assholes.

Bijou Hunter

#2. I find celebrity status difficult to bear when I am in the company of my mother.

Phil Donahue

#3. I have a soft spot for women, I'm not afraid of it, some women walk into the room, and they're so beautiful and you're like, 'I wanna smell you' you know?

Katy Perry

#4. What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos.

Herbert Read

#5. A certain something, he felt, had managed to work its way in through a tiny opening and was trying to fill a blank space inside him. The void was not one that she had made. It had always been there inside him. She had merely managed to shine a special light on it.

Haruki Murakami

#6. A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.

Vladimir Nabokov

#7. My throat tightened, but I held back the tears and reminded myself that withdrawing from a woman is no different than kicking a drug; you feel shaky and you want it, but eventually the need passes, and you feel restored.

Keith Ablow

#8. I am a social democrat - I believe in pursuing greater equality and tackling social justice - but ... you can't do that unless you have got a strong economy, unless you have got a vibrant business base earning the wealth that makes that possible.

Nicola Sturgeon

#9. The marketers can compete with free; it just has to be better. Look at bottled water if you don't believe me.

Jonathan Potter

#10. You're not a rock n' roll person four hours a day or even when you're on stage. It's become the rhythm of your whole life.

Patti Smith

#11. The two important things that I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavour is taking the first step, making the first decision.

Robyn Davidson

#12. The great achievement of Western culture since the Enlightenment is to make many of us peer over the wall and grant some respect to people outside it; the great failure of Western Culture is to deny that walls are inevitable or important.

James Q. Wilson

#13. Religion
that voice of the deepest human experience.

Matthew Arnold