Famous Quotes & Sayings

Julian Bond

Part of my task is to modernize the institution and to hasten a kind of quickness, instead of this ponderous way we have of dealing with things.

Such hopes are, however, tempered by years of disillusioning memories, which remind us all that it takes two sides to make a peace.

Eldridge Cleaver

Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.

David Crane

I was a little hesitant at taking the job at Atari. I had never programmed for a living and I worried it might get boring (building circuits seemed more fun). But I would probably still be in the video game business.

It is not that you do wrong by design, but that you should never do right by mistake.

Jim Hightower

I think democracy is under attack in our country. I think it was under attack before September 11th, and now is under rather harsh attack.

Michael Scott

I am going to marry Fantasia. She just doesn't know it yet.

George Ripley

If any imagine from the literary tone of the preceding remarks that we are indifferent to the radical movement for the benefit of the masses which is the crowning glory of the nineteenth century, they will soon discover their egregious mistake.

Kathy Acker

I mean, once work's out there it's meant to be used.

Kathy Acker

I found my voice was a reaction to all that voice stuff.

Kathy Acker

But I still don't have a clear idea of what my voice is.

Kathy Acker

Traveling around I don't think people are that horrible, I think they just don't know.

Kathy Acker

I question: do we really understand the differences between modernist and postmodernist?

Kathy Acker

You can do whatever you want with my work.

Kathy Acker

I'm really fascinated and you know I've been wondering about that usage of language, various breathing techniques and why in these practices language is being used in another way.

Kathy Acker

There's a backlash against womyn that's really bad right now.

Kathy Acker

One of the reasons I think the ultra right-wing has such power in this country is that no one talks out.

Kathy Acker

I mean, they censor your work when they're scared of it.

Kathy Acker

I write it to get it out of me. I don't write it to remember it.

Kathy Acker

I think what we have in this country is a little more dangerous in a way because it can't be seen fully. It's sorta internal censorship. We censor each other.

Kate Millett

We're more sexually repressed than men, having been given a much more strict puritanical code of behavior than men ever have.

Kate Millett

It was horrifying. You wouldn't believe how people are treated there. You could see that these people had withdrawn so far that they just lived in their own minds. They did terrible things to themselves.

Kate Millett

This country is becoming increasingly authoritarian. It's based on capital punishment.

George Jackson

Growing numbers of blacks are openly passed over when paroles are considered. They have become aware that their only hope lies in resistance.

Carry Nation

I felt invincible. My strength was that of a giant. God was certainly standing by me. I smashed five saloons with rocks before I ever took a hatchet.

Kathy Acker

I don't think what happens in this country is censorship, I should say that. It's something else. It's not banning. It's something else.

Patricia Ireland

We may be in a tough time right now, but when we are in a tough time is when our movement gets really strong.

George Rockwell

We must have a foreign policy which is based only on the long-term interests of our race, not on the interest of other races or on economic considerations or anything else.

Michael Scott

If the cameras stopped rolling today, their hearts would still be over there.

David Crane

One week before Pitfall! was to be released, I only gave you one life to play the whole game. I was experimenting with that concept as sort of the ultimate challenge.

David Crane

My background is in hardware design. I found hardware work to be a welcome change from thousands of hours of programming and that led to the designs you mentioned.

Patricia Ireland

More than 10,000 ballots in Miami-Dade County have been rejected by some machine without any opportunity for a human being to take a look. That is just not right.

Jesse Jackson

Never look down on anybody unless you're helping them up.