Redeeming Social Value Quotes

#1. I had a dozen years to act before starting a family, then found that motherhood dwarfed everything else. Once or twice a year, I take a project that appeals to me for its redeeming social value.

Sissy Spacek

#2. Forget 'redeeming social value,' dirty pictures are fun . When I die I want my ashes sprinkled over a nudist camp.

L. Neil Smith

#3. I have talents aplenty. Unfortunately, precious few of them have any redeeming social value.

David Letterman

#4. I'll cheerfully confess to spending a lot of time playing completely disgusting computer games that have no redeeming social value.

James Gleick

#5. If writing novels - and reading them - have any redeeming social value, it's probably that they force you to imagine what it's like to be somebody else. Which increasingly is something we all need to know.

Margaret Atwood

#6. Redeeming social value, indeed.

Simon Sheppard

#7. I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box.

Ellen Goodman

#8. Kids are baby goats. They're cute and they have redeeming social value. You are definitely not kids.

Rick Riordan

#9. This excerpt includes both a cautionary tale of being caught en flagrante and a stirring defense of getting fucked.

Redeeming social value, indeed.

Simon Sheppard

#10. I don't love L.A. I love New York and Minneapolis, so if I have a choice I'll stay in those places.

Josh Hartnett

#11. If, in moving through your life, you find yourself lost, go back to the last place where you knew who you were, and what you were doing, and start from there.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

#12. Underwear is everything because we all know that if we have on the wrong pair of underwear it ruins your day.

Veronica Webb

#13. He did wrong. He has acknowledged it before the people. He repents it. How many kings have the humility to do that?

Geraldine Brooks

#14. The vortex. You can see the entire galaxy up there. More stars than you ever knew existed.

Lisa Kessler

#15. I put it (a still life of a pear, made by Manet, ed.) there (on the wall, next to Ingres' Jupiter, ed.), for a pear like that would overthrow any god.

Edgar Degas

#16. There are lots of jobs in search of talent. And there's lots of talent in search of meaningful work.

Maynard Webb

#17. Dorothy scratched her dark head, yawning wide, and white feathers floated out of her hair.

Laurie Lee

#18. Old soldiers sometimes say, "There are no atheists in foxholes." (A foxhole, in military slang, is a shallow pit in a dangerous place on the battlefield.)

N. T. Wright

#19. Here is the root of all romanticism: that man, the individual, is an infinite reservoir of possibilities, and if you can so rearrange society by the destruction of oppressive order, then these possibilities will have a chance, and you will get Progress.

T. E. Hulme

#20. My deal is have a flat, simple tax. And - Americans want - Americans I hope - aspire to be - be wealthy. I hope they aspire to have a better quality of life. And we have this class warfare that's going on now. And I don't agree with that. I'm interested in people getting to work.

Rick Perry