Triflers Urban Quotes

#1. The flat hand pats the chest repeatedly with an upwardstroking movement, representing happy feelings bubbling up.

Monta Z. Briant

#2. Something that's happened recently is that I don't beat myself up about stuff.

Mindy Kaling

#3. Some people believe that if they yell and scream, others will get the point of just how serious they are. For me, all I get is the point of just how out of control that someone is.

Cathy Burnham Martin

#4. I like to get myself in over my head.

Marissa Mayer

#5. You have lascivious thoughts And keep them to yourself Words are your slaves Flesh quivers under your fingertips

Demetrios Anastasia

#6. I used to be more of a wild kid. But I've slowed down.

Fisher Stevens

#7. I think the local food movement has been taken to idiotic extremes. And so I wrote about that and people got pissed.

Joel Stein

#8. Conservatism vests in and depends on the widespread, informed understanding of human nature, self-governance and the First Principle of Progress: free people interacting in free markets produce the greatest good for the greatest number always, but only, when tethered to virtue and morality.

Mary Matalin

#9. In the end, we all want a wife. But the home has become increasingly invaded by the ethos of work, work, work, with twin sets of external clocks imposed on a household's natural rhythms.

Sandra Tsing Loh

#10. Say the truth even if it may be bitter.

Muhammad

#11. I expose slavery in this country, because to expose it is to kill it. Slavery is one of those monsters of darkness to whom the light of truth is death.

Frederick Douglass

#12. Thankfully, the farmers understand my request that the children not be allowed to peer through the windows at me.
It would be alarming for them to see me with their dolls, to see me using the knife on their faces. There are some things children never should see.

Kate Bernheimer

#13. Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school - not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical.

Abraham Verghese

#14. And meanwhile the sad truth was that not everyone could be extraordinary, not everyone could be extremely cool; because whom would this leave to be ordinary?

Jonathan Franzen

#15. I know writers who use subtext, and they're all cowards.

Garth Marenghi