Untrimmed Quotes

#1. We New Yorkers see more death and violence than most soldiers do, grow a thick chitin on our backs, grimace like a rat and learn to do a disappearing act. Long ago we outgrew the need to be blowhards about our masculinity; we leave that to the Alaskans and Texans, who have more time for it.

Edward Hoagland

#2. Have you ever noticed how the most intriguing individual in the room seems content to listen sooner than speak?

Richelle E. Goodrich

#3. Conquer the angry man by love.

Gautama Buddha

#4. I had a guidance counsellor who made me take an aptitude test, and told me I should be a bricklayer.

Harmony Korine

#5. Passion is Love's blind guide, but the only one he hath.

Richard B. Garnett

#6. Love is life but longer

Simon Van Booy

#7. And the dangerous thing about excuses is that if we recite them enough times, we actually come to believe they are true.

Robin S

#8. A young man with an untrimmed beard and rebellious eyes looked like a conscientious objector to everything.

Ross Macdonald

#9. When I graduated college I needed to make money while I was pursuing acting, so I read screenplays and made a living writing coverage on them for studios.

Sasha Alexander

#10. Before going back to sleep I imagined (I saw) a plastic universe, changeable, full of wondrous chance, an elastic sky, a sun that suddenly is missing or remains fixed or changes its shape.

Julio Cortazar

#11. A lesson must be lived in order to be learned and the clarity to see and stop this now that is what i've earned

Ani DiFranco

#12. No one has yet managed to be post-Shakespearean.

Harold Bloom

#13. His beard was all colors, a grove of trees in autumn, deep brown and fire-orange and wine-red, an untrimmed tangle across the lower half of his face. His cheeks were apple-red. He looked like a friend; like someone you had known all your life.

Neil Gaiman

#14. We never waste space saying, 'On the one hand.' We just state an opinion in a Godlike voice.

Arthur Christiansen