Rainy Day Ramblings Blog Quotes

#1. My parents are in many ways embodiments of the American Dream. They came to this country with basically nothing but the clothes on their backs, and after twenty years of hard work, sweat, and sacrifice, they were getting divorced, totally broke, and deep in therapy.

David Henry Sterry

#2. Liberation is an ever shifting horizon, a total ideology that can never fulfill its promises. It has the therapeutic quality of providing emotionally charged rituals of solidarity in hatred - it is the amphetamine of its believers.

Arianna Huffington

#3. Europeans ridicule Muslim culture because they don't understand the wisdom behind it. Take swine flu for instance: all the sudden you've got Europeans scared of pigs - we've been saying that for years!

Riaad Moosa

#4. There's one thing we need above everything else; it's something we don't talk about these days. We need a mighty avalanche of conviction of sin.

Leonard Ravenhill

#5. Never lose the groove to find a note.

Victor Wooten

#6. We have all been empowered by the web: everyone with a keyboard can now effectively broadcast to a national audience. In a sense, it puts each of us on the same footing as the major media conglomerates, except for AOL, who now apparently own all our thoughts and teeth.

John Hodgman

#7. Is it unprecedented for two goalkeepers employed in a match comprising seven goals to be the fixture's most competent protagonists?

Pete Gill

#8. I bet it's a universal truth: You eat your pie or go home.

Kevin Hearne

#9. I became a musician so I wouldn't have to get up at 6 in the morning.

Norah Jones

#10. With 'Girls' ... I feel like there's an impulse to try to make it look better or neater or more perfect, and when I watch theater, television, movies, it's always the imperfection I'm always more attracted to.

Adam Driver

#11. Instantly, the pair fell to groping one other as if each had puff the magic dragon at a rock concert in Woodstock.

Tai

#12. I drove a cab. But all the girls I knew when I was young who had to work - there were rich girls - but the ones who had to work were waitresses. Because you could always get shifts in a restaurant.

Fran Lebowitz

#13. Pay no attention to harsh words uttered by others.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#14. I wanted to use what I was, to be what I was born to be - not to have a 'career', but to be that straightforward obvious unmistakable animal, a writer.

Cynthia Ozick

#15. I've learned ... That money doesn't buy class.

Andy Rooney