Grrrl Quotes

#1. There is a lot to say about what Bikini Kill and other 'riot grrrl' bands were able to achieve when they first set out. They were not some momentary, convulsive, creative spasm of independent music. There was a very real, relevant point of view being expressed.

Henry Rollins

#2. The lo-fi scene and the riot grrrl thing had a huge influence on me. As a teenager I went to see Bikini Kill and all those bands.

Kieran Hebden

#3. To make riot grrrl move into the future in a new way with a bunch of new names and a bunch of new energy, younger people have to learn about it and apply it to their own lives and own modern conversation. And they are.

Kathleen Hanna

#4. You learn that the only way to get rock-star power as a girl is to be a groupie and bare your breasts and get chosen for the night. We learn that the only way to get anywhere is through men. And it's a lie.

Kathleen Hanna

#5. I'm naturally curious, and I've always been driven by my curiosity. Curiosity gets people excited. Curiosity leads to new ideas, new jobs, new industries.

Anne Sweeney

#6. I hate travelling and explorers. Yet here I am proposing to tell the story of my expeditions.

Claude Levi-Strauss

#7. We want to support our troops because they didn't make the decision to go there ... but I don't think it should be open-ended. We ought to have a benchmark where the administration has to come back and give us a report.

Edward Kennedy

#8. There's a fine line between brave and insane. I haven't decided which one I am yet.

Kira Saito

#9. Don't say it was delightful; make us say delightful when we've read the description. You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite) are only like saying to your readers Please will you do the job for me.

C.S. Lewis

#10. Step outside the guidelines of the official umpires and make your own rules and your own reality.

Phil Ochs

#11. But of course these conjectures as to why God does what He does are probably of no more value than my dog's ideas of what I am up to when I sit and read.

C.S. Lewis

#12. I want to scream because no matter how much I scream, no one will listen.

Sara Marcus

#13. I think every character actor at some stage likes to carry a film. It can be extremely liberating to just come in for a scene or two and do your thing. But I find it frustrating if I'm just doing little bits here and there for too long.

Brendan Gleeson

#14. We are all a little bit hippy, a little bohemian. We take that from the culture we knew, from the '70s and the '80s.

Nicolas Maduro

#15. Now my helmet's on, you can't tell me I'm not in space.

Kool Keith

#16. Secrets have a way of eating away at us from the inside

Justin Somper

#17. It [Jamaat-e-Islami] is not a missionary organisation or a body of preachers or evangelists, but an organisation of God's troopers.

Abul A'la Maududi

#18. A [typical] worker is a part-time slave.

Bob Black

#19. A new concept had entered the modern consciousness. The idea of power not in a political sense, the ability to command people, but the ability to command nature: the power to alter and use it to create something new, and produce it in greater and larger quantities than ever before.

Arthur Herman