"Only when the last tree has been cut down; Only when the last river has been poisoned; Only when the last fish has been caught; Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten."

Proverb, American Indian on Money
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 32 fans >>

"The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself."

Woolf, Virginia on Feminism
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 3 fans >>

"These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism."

Woolf, Virginia on Age and Aging
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 3 fans >>

"Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do."

Woolf, Virginia on Crowds
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 1 fans >>

"The only certainty about following the crowd is that you will all get there together."

Wynn, Mychal on Crowds
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 1 fans >>

"True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing."

Cocteau, Jean on Reality
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 1 fans >>

"Life is a horizontal fall."

Cocteau, Jean on Life and Living
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 3 fans >>

"Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance."

Sandburg, Carl on Poetry and Poets
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 6 fans >>

"Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining."

Bellow, Saul on Oppression
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 1 fans >>

"There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves."

Fadiman, Clifton on Writers and Writing
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 2 fans >>

"Television -- a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done."

Kovacs on Television
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 2 fans >>

"Stop worrying -- nobody gets out of this world alive."

James, Clive on Worry
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 5 fans >>

"When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly."

Woolf, Virginia on Banality
Discuss quotations · Share quote · 3 fans >>