"I like to think of myself as a New Yorker, which is pathetic."

-- Moon Unit Zappa

#Thinking Quotes #Pathetic Quotes

“I don't host a show and go, 'Have you got my best angle?'”
“Man has subdued the world, but woman has subdued man. Mind and muscle have won his victories; love and loveliness have gained hers. No monarch has been so great, no peasant so lowly, that he has not been glad to lay his best at the feet of a woman.”

Source : Mary Abigail Dodge (1871). “Woman's Worth and Worthlessness: The Complement to "A New Atmosphere"”, p.289
“It is neither a great praise nor a great blame when people say a tendency is in or out of fashion. If a tendency is as it should be at one time, it is always as it should be.”
“I owe baseball. Baseball don't owe me a damn thing.”
“I feel very sorry for the one or two North Korean defectors who were caught by Chinese police while entering South Korean or foreign embassies in Beijing, but their arrest drew the whole attention of the world.”
“Regardless of the popular literary trend of the times, write the thing which lies close to your heart.”

Source : Bess Streeter Aldrich (1994). “A Lantern in Her Hand”, p.9, U of Nebraska Press
“The recurring theme which predisposes people to depression is rejection and lack of self-esteem.”
“The good thing about being an artist, is it's a legitimate way of looking at things cross-eyed.”

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