Kolonel Freez Quotes

#1. Psychoanalysis showed me that I might be neurotic because I was a girl but, as Chekhov might have put it, I alone had to squeeze the slave out of myself, drop by drop.

Vivian Gornick

#2. I am something of an aficionado of thrift stores. In my youth, I regularly searched their shelves for old books.

Michael Dirda

#3. Perhaps the most important contribution to science that the Royal Society has made in its three centuries of existence is its early role in publishing Newton's masterful account of his discoveries.

Julian Schwinger

#4. History is not just facts and events. History is also a pain in the heart and we repeat history until we are able to make another's pain in the heart our own.

Julius Lester

#5. Real excellence, indeed, is most recognized when most openly looked into.

Plutarch

#6. Because, like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz, I was embraced by the gays. They loved me and praised me. I was funny and so mean and mature for my age!

Tina Fey

#7. Slavery, in other words, founded and fixed the meaning of blackness more than any transparent and transhistorical meaning of black skin founded the category of slavery.

Grace Elizabeth Hale

#8. The absurd is the fundamental idea and the first truth.

Albert Camus

#9. Right, wrong, good, bad, heaven, hell. I think that is the theme of my life. I think you have to know both in order to honestly choose one. So I'm familiar with both sides of the fence.

DMX

#10. Elaine sat on the breezeway in an old yellow nightgown of her mother's waiting for something to happen.' [ ... ] I sat like that for about an hour, trying to think what would come next, and in my mind, the barefoot doll in her mother's old yellow nightgown sat and stared into space as well.

Sylvia Plath

#11. I need so much time for doing nothing that I have no time for work.

Pierre Reverdy

#12. To be yourself, get out of the prison of your society.

Debasish Mridha

#13. Catholic schools in Indonesia routinely accept non-Catholic students, but exempt them from studying religion. Obama's school documents, though, wrongly list him as being Indonesian.

Aaron Klein

#14. I have five boys in the family, and it's constant competition, sport, humor, and practical jokes.

Mitt Romney

#15. And why was she only attracted to guys who were sleeping with somebody else? If Georgie were a wild animal, she'd be a genetic dead end.

Rainbow Rowell