Quotes About Calling A Spade A Spade

#1. There's nothing wrong with calling a spade a spade. Some things have to be exposed.

Terrence Howard

#2. Have big dreams but focus only on what you can control: your own thoughts, words and actions. This was Gandhi's way ... in the words of Buddhist poet Gary Snyder, our job is to move the world a millionth of an inch.

Eboo Patel

#3. Desperation is like stealing from the Mafia: you stand a good chance of attracting the wrong attention.

Douglas Horton

#4. Richard liked to say he picked things up for a song, which was odd, because he never sang. He never even whistled. He was not a musical person.

Margaret Atwood

#5. Beauty of scene; stateliness of movement; sweetness of sound - these are the graces that seem to reward the mind that seeks enjoyment purely for its own sake.

Virginia Woolf

#6. One of the first effects of this hyper-democratization of data was to unmoor information from the context required to understand it. On the Internet, facts float about freely and are recombined more according to the preferences of intuition than the rules of cognition:

Seth Mnookin

#7. It wasn't a cutdown to call someone a Mexican. It would kill my career to refer to someone as Mexican today. It's like calling me an American.

David Spade

#8. Thank God I didn't have my children until I was a little bit older.

Lauren Holly

#9. I put in no claims either for happiness, for gratification, or even for the common comforts of life: yet, surely, I had a right to exist!

Mary Hays

#10. How much to make her go to her room and stop talking to me?" Cal asked.
While I gaped at his rudeness, Gigi coughed a rather obvious "douchebag!" into her fist. I caught her eye and shook my head emphatically. Douche-coughing someone with superhearing was not a responsible choice.

Molly Harper

#11. I do not feel certain until I have confronted my initial solution with other solutions - although in fact the first solution often proves to be the right one.

Arne Jacobsen

#12. I was six years old when I saw my first Godard movie, eight when I first experienced Bergman. I wanted to be a director when I was fourteen.

Julie Delpy

#13. MySpace is a great way to keep in touch with friends who you don't care enough about to actually have a conversation with, why bother calling to say "how are you," when you can just surf their page and post an mpeg of a guy farting on his cat.

David Spade

#14. Freaks, they are very prejudiced. You have to have your hair long and talk in a certain way in order to be with them. In order to be the other way you have to have your hair short and wear ties.

Jimi Hendrix

#15. We will not forget that Liberty has here made her home; nor shall her chosen altar be neglected.

Grover Cleveland

#16. Why ask for truth," Ser Barristan said softly, "if you close your ears to it?

George R R Martin

#17. We hunt the White Stag, like Quentin did. We catch it or shoot it or whatever you do with it. We get three wishes. We wish Fillory would last forever and not die. Done. Mischief managed." Eliot

Lev Grossman