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“We are connected, like it or not, to the ancestors of our biological families, and their templates”
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“If we have had no past, it is well for us to look hopefully to the future - for the shadows bear the promise of a brighter coming day.”
Source : Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Frances Smith Foster (1990). “A Brighter Coming Day: A Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Reader”, p.124, Feminist Press at CUNY
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“If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.”
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“We are probably hitting more this week than we ever have, just to see, ... We have 40 kids out there, and it is pretty competitive. So we have some kids we can put in, but they are going to have a lack of experience.”
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“You are my siren,†he said, running his hands along her thighs and down her calves, feeling the shape of her even as the silk of her gown kept them both from what they wanted. “My temptress . . . my sorceress . . . I cannot resist you, no matter how I try. You threaten to send me over the edge.”
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“I was happy in the dream; but when I woke up it was with a feeling that I was falling apart, that I was cracking up from the inside and slowly falling to pieces. My heart was jumping and grating like a cold engine that doesn't want to start. My skin was crawling, and I couldn't manage a single clear thought. It was as if all my thoughts were crushed to bits just as they began to take shape. I didn't get much done that day.”
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“I want to make albums that are like a Murakami novel or a Terrence Malick film - something that explicitly states its own world.”
Source : Source: pitchfork.com
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“I don't do chat-up lines. Girls often tell me I'm cheeky. Being cheeky seems to work OK for me.”
Source : "Jermain Defoe: 'I give my looks 11 out of 10. I don't need improving'". Interview with Mirror.co.uk, www.mirror.co.uk. June 6, 2010.