"We must use words as they are used, or stand aside from life."

-- Ivy Compton-Burnett

#Use Quotes #Used Quotes

“Many sisters complain that people don't want to marry them unless they stop wearing hijab. No man is worth your hijab, and a real man wouldn't request you to take it off in the first place.”
“There is, in short, no great idea that stupidity could not put to its own uses [....] The truth by comparison, has only one appearance and only one path, and is always at a disadvantage.”
“That's all that it's going to be. God bless them. But you know what? I've got a nice house and a kid in college, and I'll tell you, we cannot handle it. Giving our paycheck away when you still worked and earned it? That's just not going to fly.”

Source : "Lee Terry Needs His Salary During Government Shutdown To Pay For His ‘Nice House’" by Amanda Terkel, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 4, 2013.
“My writing time needs to surround itself with empty stretches, or at least unpeopled ones, for the writing takes place in an area of suspension as in a hanging nest that is almost entirely encapsulated.”

Source : Maxine Kumin (1996). “Women, Animals & Vegetables: Essays & Stories”
“Maybe if audiences all over the world would check out animation from other countries, filmmakers would be more sophisticated and experimental.”
“The TV show I do ['Dr Quinn'] is the day job that enables me to work with this theater [Pacific Resident Theatre Ensemble]. That's all I live for. That's what I care about. There's no dough in it. Nothing to do but lose money. But it's all from the heart, and that's why it's so much fun.”
“Where do we record the passing of wildlife? Who mourns the silent deaths of the small?”
“~beautiful soul weeps deep~”

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