Strawperson Quotes

#1. When your opponent sets up a straw man, set it on fire and kick the cinders around the stage. Don't worry about losing the Strawperson- American community vote.

James Lileks

#2. Fashion is born by small facts, trends, or even politics, never by trying to make little pleats and furbelows, by trinkets, by clothes easy to copy, or by the shortening or lengthening of a skirt.

Elsa Schiaparelli

#3. Play Therapy is based upon the fact that play is the child's natural medium of self-expression. It is an opportunity which is given to the child to 'play out' his feelings and problems just as, in certain types of adult therapy, an individual 'talks out' his difficulties.

Virginia Axline

#4. To escape death, she'd become death.
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Sarah J. Maas

#5. You need a good James Clavell novel, I think, to make a good miniseries.

Noah Hawley

#6. The reason why education is usually so poor among women of fashion is, that it is not needed for the life which they elect to lead.

Julia Ward Howe

#7. I'm a flaming faggot, Irving. I was sure you were on to that. I don't go around waving the flag, of course, and I definitely do not proselytize. Homosexuality is, to me, an inner satisfaction, a pride in a heritage of greatness. To marry a woman would be an inadmissible rejection of my identity.

Paddy Chayefsky

#8. I'd love to do more woodworking, and maybe will someday, but I wasn't brought up in that environment. My wife is better at woodworking, and most around-the-house skills, than I am.

Joseph Monninger

#9. Remind yourself every now and again that you can and will do better than your past & present performance.

Sarvesh Jain

#10. In all my work there's this notion of the melancholic. You can make a photograph about the sublime, but you can't make the sublime itself.

John Divola

#11. The Church should go forward along the path of progress and be no longer satisfied only to represent the Conservative Party at prayer.

Maude Royden

#12. Brainy's the new sexy.

Steven Moffat

#13. No longer perceived across a distance, the world dissolves into my own blood, sustaining me from within via its nutritive powers. I am not just a gazing upon the world but one who feeds on it, drinks of it, breathes it in.

Drew Leder

#14. It is apparent that only a certain kind of person will want to make ethnographic films, It will, above all, be those who sense the profound affinity that exists between the film medium and a desire to understand people.

Robert Gardner