Piss Poor Attitude Quotes

#1. Must be the hair then. And the name change. And your new piss-poor attitude. Because every once in a while, I look at you and I don't see a Baby Doll anymore. I just see Alice Faye Dahl, Poker Champion Badass. With obvious, heavy influences from Ronald McDonald, of course.

Elle Lothlorien

#2. I became a novelist because of 'Gone With the Wind,' or more precisely, my mother raised me up to be a 'Southern' novelist, with a strong emphasis on the word 'Southern' because 'Gone With the Wind' set my mother's imagination ablaze when she was a young girl growing up in Atlanta.

Pat Conroy

#3. Anxiety is the gap between now and later.

Frederick Salomon Perls

#4. To be wrong, and to be carefully wrong, that is the definition of decadence.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#5. I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.

Oprah Winfrey

#6. Don't talk about yourself so much ... we'll do that when you leave.

Anonymous

#7. It all scares me, and it's all like clothes in a dryer that just keep rolling around in my head from one day to the next.

Patrick Carman

#8. The peculiarity of prudery is to station the more sentries the less the fortress is menaced.

Victor Hugo

#9. My mother was English. My parents met in Oxford in the '50s, and my mother moved to Nigeria and lived there. She was five foot two, very feisty and very English.

Chris Abani

#10. I think I was lucky in that I wasn't one of those girls who are told they are pretty the whole time. I never got that. Nor did I ever obsess about my looks as a teenager.

Rosamund Pike

#11. If I were the earth it would disgust me, all this vermin on my back, I'd shake it off.

Simone De Beauvoir

#12. Like any art, the creation of self is both natural and seemingly impossible. It requires training as well as magic.

Holly Near

#13. Creativity is a voracious animal. It needs to be fed regularly. If you leave it untended for too long, you run the risk of starving your passion and diminishing your spirit.

Nancy Lam

#14. You can give them the world a thousand times over, and they will throw it away a thousand and one times.

Alejandro C. Estrada