Quotes for All
How do people go to sleep? I’m afraid I’ve lost the knack. I might try busting myself smartly over the temple with the night-light. I might repeat to myself, slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound; if I can remember any of the damn things. Dorothy Parker
Luck is the by-product of busting your fanny. Don Sutton
I am interested in the confines of the page and busting through/off the page as well. A writer must let go of the line when writing prose poems, which brings its own pleasures. Denise Duhamel
Well now I’m no hero, that’s understood. All the redemption I can offer girl, is beneath this dirty hood. With a chance to make it good somehow, hey what else can we do now? Except roll down the window, and let the wind blow back your hair. Well the night’s busting open, these two lanes … Read more
If the general attitude of Canadians toward their mighty neighbor to the south could be distilled into a single phrase, that phrase would probably be Oh, shut up. The Americans talked too much, mainly about themselves. Their torrid love affair with their own history and legend exceeded-painfully-the quasi-British Canadian idea of modesty and self-restraint. … … Read more
Twenty years ago, you’d see guys busting rackets in locker rooms. Today they do it in their hotel rooms. Brad Gilbert
It’s not me, it’s the songs. I’m just the postman, I deliver the songs. When I first heard Elvis’ voice, I knew that I wasn’t going to work for anybody … hearing him for the first time was like busting out of jail. This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, … Read more
..When I first heard Elvis’ voice, I knew that I wasn’t going to work for anybody … hearing him for the first time was like busting out of jail Bob Dylan
Ronald Reagan was an anti-government, union-busting, race baiting, anti-abortion, anti-gay, anti-intellectual, who cut rich people’s taxes in half, had a incurable case of the military-industrial complex, and said Medicare was socialism that would destroy our freedom. Both sides really should stop pretending he was something other than the man most responsible for our decline. Bill … Read more
a great deal of the wealth at the top is built on the low-wage labor of the poor. Take Wal-Mart, our largest private employer and premiere exploiter of the working class. … You think it’s a coincidence that this union-busting low-wage retail empire happens to have generated a $65 billion family fortune? Barbara Ehrenreich