Stipulating Quotes

#1. It isn't that NPR is matriarchal but that it has dedicated itself to not being patriarchal in its outlook and presentation, stipulating from the outset that its headline voices would not resound across the fruited plains from big male bags of air sent from Mount Olympus.

James Wolcott

#2. Asked what role he believes art plays in society, Baselitz replied, 'The same role as a good shoe, nothing more.

Georg Baselitz

#3. There is no person alive who cannot make a new beginning.

L. Ron Hubbard

#4. If you look at the CEOs of some the most successful companies in the world like IKEA, they never fly first class. They always go economy.

Gene Simmons

#5. I could spend a year trying to describe him, but you still wouldn't fully appreciate his unique appeal until your panties spontaneously combusted the first time he smiled at you.

Joanna Wylde

#6. I just sort of try to be a good person; try to write music that lifts people and makes me feel good to sing.

Carole King

#7. But sometimes even the sky is dangerous. I look up and see your face in the stars.

Carole Maso

#8. He was trying to convince himself that he wasn't guilty.

Walter Dean Myers

#9. But there is one cool thing
about having a weirdo mother.
She works so hard at remembering
where she left herself
she doesn't have time
to work on me.

Linda Vigen Phillips

#10. All the world begins with a kiss...

Gary Paul Corcoran

#11. all reasonable men adapt themselves to the world. Only a few unreasonable ones persist in trying to adapt the world to themselves. All progress in the world depends on these unreasonable men and their innovative and often non-conformist actions.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#12. Not one of us can lie or pretend. We're all fixed in good faith in a certain concept of ourselves.

Luigi Pirandello

#13. No man loses ever on a lower level by magnanimity on a higher.

Henry David Thoreau

#14. Whatever we say, we're always talking about ourselves.

Alison Bechdel

#15. It was when I finally captured God's vision for my life that I was able to recognize the kind of people who fit into my story. All

Debra Fileta

#16. am inconsolable, wretched, heartbroken that my very dear friend Beatrice is dead. Which is kind of odd considering I'm the one who killed her.

Natalie Barelli