Purifed Quotes

#1. A word may become so defiled by bad use that it will take a century before it can be purifed, and brought into use again.

Olive Schreiner

#2. I will play the characters with last names like Sanchez and Gonzalez until the day I die, but I also want to play the 'Michelle Smiths.'

Gina Rodriguez

#3. If, as I suspect, my body survives by uttering itself over and over again, then I have some questions. If [I] am one word, so are my daughters, so are all of us in strings and loops. Each life is one short word slowly uttered.

Louise Erdrich

#4. Sometimes I just know things.

Sonya Sones

#5. Beauty, therefore, for the modern and postmodern artist has become a highly dubious metaphor for a discredited belief system.

John Walford

#6. A person's reason for doing someone a good turn matters as much as the good turn itself.

Michael Ende

#7. Theories pass. The frog remains.

Jean Rostand

#8. It's important for us, if we're going to be a good team, to be a good defensive team in the fourth quarter.

Steve Nash

#9. I'd rather write one good book than ten mediocre ones.

Donna Tartt

#10. For the most part, having more money and more fame make your life harder. It just does. I've seen it happen with people. You know, it's so hard to stay normal. It's so hard to stay happy. It's hard to remember why you were doing what you did in the first place.

Rashida Jones

#11. The people at the top know what they have to do to stay there, and in a pinch they can easily overlook the sweaty piety of the new Republican masses, the social conservatives who raise their voices in praise of Jesus but cast their votes for Caesar.

Thomas Frank

#12. You deserve better.

Katie McGarry