Likins Layout Quotes

#1. We all want things we can't have. Being a decent human being is accepting that.

John Fowles

#2. All this very plausible reasoning does not convince me, as it has not convinced the wisest of our Statesmen, that our ancestors erred in laying it down as an axiom of policy that the toleration of Irregularity is incompatible with the safety of the State.

Edwin A. Abbott

#3. Even though I wanted to be John Malkovich or Sean Penn when I was a kid, mostly I was a music nerd.

Justin Kirk

#4. A state of war is not a blank check for the president when it comes to the rights of the nation's citizens.

Sandra Day O'Connor

#5. As somebody who has wanted to be an actor who is very young, I can relate to somebody who has been practicing oboe five days a week since they were very young. The physicality of anything a character does is a tremendous gift.

Lola Kirke

#6. You may end up with a different math, but you're entitled to your math. I'm entitled to the math.

Karl Rove

#7. But hurry, let's entwine ourselves as one, our mouth broken, our soul bitten by love, so time discovers us safely destroyed.

Federico Garcia Lorca

#8. Mature psychological health cannot exist unless we are capable of doubting any form of conceptual certitude about ourselves or anything else.

Richard Moss

#9. Every generation always thinks it was better before, and I think people have been saying this for probably thousands of years.

Paul Auster

#10. Fellow senators balked at punishing Senator Alfonse D'Amato of New York though he was caught in a series of transactions that earned him the label "Senator Sleaze." D'Amato explained their reluctance as he defended his own behavior. "There but for the grace of God go most of my colleagues," he said.

William Greider

#11. I couldn't go to school with whites. Now there are schools that educate everyone.

Joe Frazier

#12. The boy Weneluke wove hand patterns with a string, working skillfully into abstract designs on all eight fingers: one of these represented a man and woman facing each other, and, by manipulating each sex, he arrived at a nice parody of copulation.

Peter Matthiessen

#13. There were no colonies on Earth. It was all a scam the Martians were using to con the rest of the universe. There had been no first contact. Her knees quivered, and all her muscles tensed. She was first contact.

Patricia Eimer