Opiated Font Quotes

#1. I am very timid about speaking for the collective. I can say what I see, I can say what I've heard, I can say what I feel, but I can't speak for - no one can speak for - 10 million people, and it takes away something from them if you make yourself their voice.

Edwidge Danticat

#2. Many fairy tales and ballads present us with animals who are nobler, truer, and kinder than the greedy human beings who desire to possess them. I guess I tend to read these stories as very early (and possibly unconscious) feminist texts.

Delia Sherman

#3. There is no better example for our children,
then the one we set before them every day

Davin Whitehurst

#4. You are in the world, but not to be tied to the world.

Jim George

#5. you never maximize your full potential until you learn how to embrace suffering.

Steve Carter

#6. There is so much hate among people, so much contempt inside people who'd like you to think they're moral, that they have to hire prizefighters to do their hating for them. And we do. We get into a ring and act out other people's hates.

Floyd Patterson

#7. I would have bartered a diamond mine for a glass of pure spring water!

Jules Verne

#8. That portion of reality that can be composed within a frame can be understood.

Robert Breault

#9. My parents scrimped and saved all their lives, to the point where my mother used a disgusting old oven mitt that was stained and partly patched together with a skirt I made in seventh grade.

Roz Chast