Stefanescu Quotes

#1. I would drive home and see people wearing my No. 34 jersey and wonder why, because I didn't feel worthy of that. And all the time I just knew people were staring at me, talking about me everywhere I went.

Ricky Williams

#2. I am so fed up and joyless that not only have I nothing to fill my soul, I cannot even conceive of anything that could possibly satisfy it - alas, not even the bliss of heaven.

Soren Kierkegaard

#3. its eyelids half lowered, a look I found particularly sinister.

A.D. Koboah

#4. One group of people that get a lot of PTSD are soldiers who have been in combat. You know who gets more PTSD, has higher rates of PTSD? Women who have escaped prostitution. That tells me that the war that men wage against women is actually worse than the wars they wage against each other.

Lierre Keith

#5. Will you be able to touch me again without thinking about Sean? I don't want you to be disgusted by me.

Stephanie Witter

#6. I wake, the lump of last night
hiking a trail through my throat.

[from "Those Who Love Raptors"]

Alina Stefanescu

#7. The life you live in front of an audience is like an altered state - it's not totally real. I'm always, even in the course of one day, trying to find ways to balance both sides.

Miranda July

#8. John is away all day, and even some nights when his cases are serious. I am glad my case is not serious!

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#9. Just as with homicide, those in the 'passion' category of suicide are much more likely to turn to whatever means are immediately available - those that are easy and quick.

Scott Anderson

#10. I think that the beauty of 'Spud' is that everyone can connect to the character of Spud in so many ways. It's about real experiences that happen to kids all the time.

Troye Sivan

#11. The budget should be balanced not by more taxes, but by reduction of follies.

Herbert Hoover

#12. By the age of twenty the distinctly Branwellian qualities would be developed from which he would never again shake himself free.

Winifred Gerin

#13. Rioting is a childish way of trying to be a man, but it takes time to rise out of the hell of hatred and frustration and accept that to be a man you don't have to riot.

Abraham Maslow

#14. I think when you have a good warm up you feel good about your performance. You know that you've trained so mentally you're in a better state.

Keauna McLaughlin

#15. The prose is deeply inspired by the tension between post- totalitarianism and consumer democracy. I am constantly probing the soft fleshy parts of the American dream.

Alina Stefanescu

#16. Fossil fuel corporations are supposed to pay the government fair market royalties in exchange for the right to drill on public lands or in federal waters.

Bernie Sanders

#17. Skylar Nixon could be the one woman who was strong enough, sweet enough, forgiving enough to be with me. The thought was both terrifying and beautiful.

Melanie Harlow