Quotes for All
I don’t know if God exists and I don’t care. God’s will and design for this temporal and spatial vastness, if any, is so patently, deliberately impenetrable that I doubt any mortal has a grasp on it. The very inexplicability of sad events like the tsunami, like the AIDS crisis or even like the cancer … Read more
My classmates would copulate with anything that moved, but I never saw any reason to limit myself. Emo Philips
I really was more sexual than my classmates. Emily Ratajkowski
Ever since we had arrived in the United States, my classmates kept asking me about magic carpets. – They don’t exist-I always said. I was wrong. Magic carpets do exist. But they are called library cards. Firoozeh Dumas
And one of the things I noticed pretty early on in art school was that my classmates had no notion of an audience. Right? I mean, growing up with the mother that I did, I learned that when you walk into the dry cleaners, there’s an audience waiting for you. You know, maybe it’s just … Read more
During their college years the oarsmen put in terrbily long hours, often showing up at the boathouse at 6:00am for preclass practices. Both physically and psychologically, they were separated from their classmates. Events that seemed earth-shattering to them– for example, who was demoted from the varsity to the junior varsity — went almost unnoticed by … Read more
I know my grandfather drank occasionally socially, what we call taking a sip. And my father never touched the bottle. He condemned my grandfather for doing that, and his punishment to his father was when my grandfather came to visit him from Georgia, he would not allow my grandfather to preach in his church.Even though … Read more
People worry more about girls, for a good reason: I don’t think my parents thought I was going to be raped by a classmate or attacked when I was walking alone in some neighborhood. So it’s not just paranoid parents. Daniel Handler
Don’t wait for success, but for the respect and interest of those who read you. At the start it could be a classmate, someone who shares your interests. Before sending off the manuscript for a novel to a publishing house, it would be a good idea to try writing short stories, and publishing them in … Read more
I was born in segregated Birmingham, Alabama. I didn’t have a white classmate till we moved to Denver. Condoleezza Rice