Riot Grrrl Bands Quotes

#1. There is a lot to say about what Bikini Kill and other 'riot grrrl' bands were able to achieve when they first set out. They were not some momentary, convulsive, creative spasm of independent music. There was a very real, relevant point of view being expressed.

Henry Rollins

#2. Where's my food? When is it coming? What did I order, anyway?

Lawrence Tierney

#3. Becoming a footballer is only the first half of the silent prayer a kid offers up to the sky or confides to his teacher in a primary school essay. The second part is the name of the team he wants to play for.

Andrea Pirlo

#4. Don't bite his face, Eleanor told herself. It's disturbing and needy and never happens in situation comedies or movies that end with big kisses.

Rainbow Rowell

#5. She always wears her sunglasses, even when it rains.

Anne Berest

#6. The lo-fi scene and the riot grrrl thing had a huge influence on me. As a teenager I went to see Bikini Kill and all those bands.

Kieran Hebden

#7. God, I swear I've never seen a more
nervous bunch of people. Like a bunch of rats in a science lab.

Feather Stone

#8. Only imagine a man acting for one single day on the supposition that all his neighbors believe all that they profess, and act up to all that they believe!

Thomas B. Macaulay

#9. People will believe absurd things - in the 19th century and now.

Harvey Pekar

#10. Twitter taught me how to become better at writing jokes because it forces you to chip away at all the extraneous words.

Peter Serafinowicz

#11. Nobody likes my hair blonde!

Marissa Jaret Winokur

#12. The more ambivalent you are and the more uncertain you are, then you can get something that you cannot anticipate.

Elia Kazan

#13. The civilized world needs to think about a decision when single politicians are not allowed to stay in power.

Vladimir Zhirinovsky

#14. Winston Niles Rumfoord was something else again - morally, spatially, socially, sexually, and electrically.

Kurt Vonnegut

#15. A clean heart is a free heart. A free heart can love Christ with an undivided love in chastity, convinced that nothing and nobody will separate it from his love. Purity, chastity, and virginity created a special beauty in Mary that attracted God's attention.

Mother Teresa

#16. I have a life. My kids don't run my house.

Mayim Bialik

#17. For many foreign fighters, the jihad in Iraq and Syria is a commuter war.

Richard Engel