quotes about Shiny Things

“I release you. I evict you from my heart. Because if I don't do it now, I never will.”

“First Amendment freedoms are most in danger when the government seeks to control thought or to justify its laws for that impermissible end. The right to think is the beginning of freedom, and speech must be protected from the government because speech is the beginning of thought.”

Source : Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition, 535 U.S. 234, 2002.

“I think we can learn a lot about a person in the very moment that language fails them. In the very moment they they have to be more creative than they would have imagined in order to communicate. It's the very moment that they have to dig deeper than the surface to find words, and at the same time, it's a moment when they want to communicate very badly. They're digging deep and projecting out at the same time.”

“Clothes and manners do not make the...”

“In the end, it's always a single person who makes change. But I do think we should try to send artists out into the world and not have them all stick together in the big cities.”

“I sense that, without sensitivity to physical pain and pleasure, man would not have known self-interest, and consequently know just or unjust acts. Thus, physical sensitivity and self-interest are the authors of all justice.”

“If you disagree with me, fine! Because that's the great thing about America, we can disagree!”

“Miss Bennet, I am quite aware of your superior talent for cutting down the Lord's forsaken flock. I merely mean to spare your gown.' Thank you,' said Elizabeth, composing herself, 'but I should rather my gown be soiled than my honor.”

Source : Seth Grahame-Smith, Jane Austen, Roberto Parada (2009). “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance--now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem”, p.163, Chronicle Books

“Within a moment there is monumental potential. That is the mystery of a moment. It is small enough to ignore and big enough to change your life forever”

“I love it when women come up to me and tell me I'm a positive influence on their lives and the lives of their young daughters. That's a great feeling.”