Smushed Face Quotes

#1. My father was an atheist, absent. He was a salesman; I was four years old when he told me that the end of life was death.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

#2. In my family, misery didn't just love company, it wanted hostages.

Jerry Stahl

#3. The coffers are full of money and equipment for the Ferguson Police and the Missouri National Guard to put down a potential uprising, but no money for actually uplifting the people of Ferguson, St. Louis, Missouri and around the nation.

Jesse Jackson

#4. Activists and geeks, standing together, are demonstrating powers beyond the reach of government control.

Barton Gellman

#5. The thing that chiefly struck me was the rarity of really bookish people.

Andy Miller

#6. I think that men's clothing should be functional. If there's a rip in his jeans, it should be because he was out working, not because he ripped them so they looked cool. It's even better if they're ripped because he got in a fight.

Samaire Armstrong

#7. Everyone rushes his life on, and suffers from a yearning for the future and a boredom with the present. But that man who devotes every hour to his own needs, who plans every day as if it were his last, neither longs for nor fears tomorrow.

Seneca The Younger

#8. A country cannot make progress while leaving half of its population behind.

Melanne Verveer

#9. There are some weaknesses that are peculiar and distinctive to generous characters, as freckles are to a fair skin.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#10. I guess in my beer-soaked mind it would all just magically work out, and she'd be so happy to see me she'd forget about everything else. Because everybody loves having the drunken self-pitying boyfriend banging on their door at, Jesus, four thirty in the morning.

Rachel Caine

#11. I think people need hope when times are tough. I think they also need escape and adventure and fantasy. Books are like cheap mini vacations.

Michelle M. Pillow

#12. Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.

Henri Bergson

#13. As children of the Lord we should strive every day to rise to a higher level of personal righteousness in all of our actions.

James E. Faust

#14. I dance not to entertain but to help people better understand each other. Because through dance I have experienced the wordless joy of freedom, I seek it more fully now for my people and for all people everywhere.

Pearl Primus

#15. People are perfectly capable of giving love even if they feel less confident about themselves.

Anna Agoncillo