Mutilating Quotes

#1. I hate when people question my ability to get from one place to another without mutilating myself. It's tantamount to saying, "Try to get home without screwing it up like last time, dummy," or "Farewell, for I may never see you again, given the mortality that awaits us all like a crouching panther.

Rob Sheffield

#2. Here we are to remember that in consequence of our opinion that labor is the Father and active principle of wealth, as lands are the Mother, that the state by killing, mutilating, or imprisoning their members do withal punish themselves.

William Petty

#3. Dream's evanescence, the way in which, on awakening, our thoughts thrust it aside as something bizarre, and our reminiscences mutilating or rejecting it - all these and many other problems have for many hundred years demanded answers which up till now could never have been satisfactory.

Sigmund Freud

#4. I think what all of us have in common is that we've been taught and trained and programmed to focus on fixing and mutilating ourselves. That's a core reason why women do not have power in the world.

Eve Ensler

#5. The only possible recourse a baby has when his screams are ignored is to repress his distress, which is tantamount to mutilating his soul, for the result is an interference with his ability to feel, to be aware, and to remember.

Alice Miller

#6. Of course, any simplification runs the risk of mutilating reality; but it helps us establish perspectives.

Gaston Bachelard

#7. You cannot reshape human nature without mutilating human beings.

Edward Abbey

#8. Marijuana is a proven medicine.

Tommy Chong

#9. I was the same kind of father as I was a harpist - I played by ear.

Harpo Marx

#10. There's even more stuff that I'd like to release, but I'm scared to, that's really, um, nerdy ... not nerdy in a good way. Like, silly.

Liz Phair

#11. Time can be used to convert anything

Sunday Adelaja

#12. We are only defeated when we allow ourselves to be defeated.

R.K. Ryals

#13. I'm a method actor.

Seann William Scott

#14. I don't have principles. I have nerves.

Joseph Brodsky

#15. I've always considered myself, at the end of the day, to be kind of a storyteller.

Ross Mathews

#16. Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the opera - or an NHL game.

Margaret Atwood

#17. Your brain is much better than you think; just use it!

Leonardo Da Vinci