quotes about Family History

“We would like UN resolutions to be enforced, including on Iraq.”

“What would be frightening about me jumping out of the bush wearing a pig mask is not the sudden surprise, not me, and not the pig mask, but that the ordinary world had split open for a moment to reveal some possibility never previously considered.”

“Nature endows woman alternately with a particular strength which helps her to suffer and a weakness which counsels her to be resigned.”

“It's nice to have one worry marched to the wings and forcefully thrown into the alleyway.”

Source : "Working Class Zero". Book by Rob Payne, Chapter 32, 2003.

“See, Barack been, um, talking down to black people on this faith-based... I want to cut his nuts off. Barack, he's talking down to black people.”

“Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.”

“Homosexuality is a cage in which you are trapped in an endless cycle of constantly wanting more - sexually - that you can never actually receive, constantly full of emptiness, trying to justify your twisted actions by politics and ‘feel good’ language.”

“The stage show is, in some sense, highly theatrical. It's definitely not just a band in jeans playing rock and roll.”

“I'm fond of observing how obsession is the most durable form of intellectual capital.”

Source : Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Adam Frank (2003). “Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity”, p.2, Duke University Press

“My best friend, Wil Wheaton, identifies himself as a geek.”