Quotes About Sylvester Graham

#1. Sylvester Graham, he of the eponymous health-food cracker, claimed that a man who could make it to the age of thirty without giving in to the temptations of his sexual urges would be a veritable god.

Hanne Blank

#2. Why are we outsourcing millions of high-paying jobs to China and India? Why don't we secure the border and stop the country from being flooded with millions of illegal immigrants? These are important questions on the mind of middle class voters all over America.

George Noory

#3. A need, a need, a need have I
A wish, a wish, a wish, I sigh

Shannon Hale

#4. I am in no degree ashamed of having changed my opinions. What physicist who was active in 1900 would dream of boasting that his opinions had not changed?

Bertrand Russell

#5. Cruelty to animals is contrary to man's duty to himself, because it deadens in him the feeling of sympathy for their sufferings, and thus a natural tendency that is very useful to morality in relation to other human beings is weakened.

Immanuel Kant

#6. Miles Davis fully embraced possibilities and delved into it. He was criticized heavily from the jazz side. He was supposed to be part of a tradition, but he didn't consider himself part of a tradition.

Bill Laswell

#7. I'm not happy. And it doesn't matter that I should be, because emotions never listen to reason.

Tori Centanni

#8. The wrong question to ask of a myth is whether it is true or false. The right question is whether it is living or dead, whether it still speaks to our condition.

Richard Holloway

#9. There is such a thing as the impression of luminosity.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#10. I don't want the next generation to fight the same fight as I did.

Ai Weiwei

#11. It is said that life and death are under the power of language.

Helene Cixous

#12. WAR, n. A by-product of the arts of peace. The most menacing political condition is a period of international amity.

Ambrose Bierce

#13. Being on a highway, all that speed and aggression, is very terrifying to me.

Sandra Cisneros

#14. Surprisingly, Gwendolyn, I have more important things to do with my time, like put bamboo shoots under my nails or drill holes in all my teeth.

Shelly Laurenston

#15. Josh had a movie star jewfro and a smug little grin

Saira Viola

#16. You lucky bitch. He's packing and eats pussy like it's his job. What's that website again?

Kathryn Perez

#17. Taking all vegetable-eating nations together ... they are a larger and much better formed race than the flesh eaters.

Sylvester Graham