F Quotes
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“Freaks are called freaks and are treated as they are treated – in the main, abominably – because they are human beings who cause to echo, deep within us, our most profound terrors and desires.”
“Freaks are revolutionaries, and revolutionaries are freaks”
“Freaks are the much needed escape from the humdrum. They are poetry.”
“Freaks become norms, and norms become extinct. Monster by monster, evolution advanced”
Source: The Gene: An Intimate History
“Freaks was a thing I photographed a lot. It was one of the first things I photographed and it had a terrific kind of excitement for me. I just used to adore them. I still do adore some of them. I don't quite mean they're my best friends but they made me feel a mixture of shame and awe. There's a quality of legend about freaks. Like a person in a fairy tale who stops you and demands that you riddle. Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats.”
Source: Diane Arbus: Monograph
“Freaks was a thing I photographed a lot. It was one of the first things I photographed and it had a terrific kind of excitement for me. I just used to adore them. I still do adore some of them. I don't quite mean they're my best friends but they made me feel a mixture of shame and awe.”
“Freaks, they are very prejudiced. You have to have your hair long and talk in a certain way in order to be with them. In order to be the other way you have to have your hair short and wear ties.”
“Freaky monsters were trying to kill us," Sabrina said. "Should I have just died out there so you could keep your clubhouse secret?" "Absolutely!" the prince said.”
Source: The Sisters Grimm: Book Seven: The Everafter War
“Freaky things happen all the time in the world. I suppose everything has to happen for the first time at some point.”
“Freckles, scars, hair and flesh, why do so many see it as a mess? Frightened we try to hide from it all, why can't we embrace it and love it all?”
“Fred and George, however, found all this very funny. They went out of
their way to march ahead of Harry down the corridors, shouting, "Make way for
the Heir of Slytherin, seriously evil wizard coming through ......
Percy was deeply disapproving of this behavior.
"It is not a laughing matter," he said coldly.
"Oh, get out of the way, Percy," said Fred. "Harry's in a hurry."
"Yeah, he's off to the Chamber of Secrets for a cup of tea with his fanged
servant," said George, chortling.
Ginny didn't find it amusing either.
"Oh, don't," she wailed every time Fred asked Harry loudly who he was
planning to attack next, or when George pretended to ward Harry off with a large
clove of garlic when they met.”
Source: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
“Fred and George turned to each other and said together, "Wow, we're identical!" "I dunno though, I think I'm still better looking," said Fred, examining his reflection in the kettle.”
Source: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
“Fred and George turned to each other and said together, “Wow — we’re identical!”
Source: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
“Fred Astaire is my hero. I love him because he was willing to kill himself to make his art look effortless. And because he proved it's possible to be an artist and a good person.”
“Fred Astaire is the Carioca, the Continental, the very Piccolino of romance.”
“Fred Astaire. Not a handsome man. He said himself he couldn’t sing. He was balding his whole life. He danced like a cheetah runs, with the grace of the first creation. I mean, that first week. On one of those days God created Fred Astaire. Saturday maybe, since that was the day for the pictures. When you saw Fred you felt better about everything. He was a cure. He was bottled in the films and all around the earth, from Castlebar to Cairo, he healed the halt and the blind. That’s the gospel truth. St Fred. Fred the Redeemer.”
Source: The Secret Scripture
“Fred Astaire represented the aristocracy, I represented the proletariat.”
“Fred Astaire told me things I will never forget. Gene Kelly also said he liked my dancing. It was a fantastic experience because I felt I had been inducted into an informal fraternity of dancers, and I felt so honored because these were the people I most admired in the world.”
“Fred Astaire was a more formal, trained dancer who loved waltzing and only danced with the girls.”
“Fred Astaire. Not a handsome man. He said himself he couldn't sing. He was balding his whole life. He danced like a cheetah runs with the grace of the first creation. I mean, that first week. On one of those days God created Fred Astaire. Saturday maybe, since that was the day for the pictures. When you s Fred you felt better about everything. He was a cure. He was bottled in the films and all around the earth, from Castlebar to Cairo, he healed the halt and the blind. That's the gospel truth. St. Fred. Fred the Redeemer.”
“Fred Astaire’s got nothing on me.”
Source: Si-cology 1: Tales and Wisdom from Duck Dynasty’s Favorite Uncle
“Fred börjar där fördomar slutar.”
Source: Corazon Calamidad: Obedient to None, Oppressive to None
“Fred coughed, which caused Sam and Ellie to look over at her. “Hey, Ellie. Watch this.”
Mentally apologizing to her oldest friend, Fred seized Jonas by the shirt collar and
heaved him out of his chair and through the (fortunately open) sliding door.
Jonas was densely built (“Deliciously so,” Dr. Barb might have said over the sound of
Fred’s retching), but no match for Fred’s hybrid strength, and the air velocity he achieved
was really quite something.
Fred ignored his wail (“My sundaeeee!”), which became easier to do the fainter it got.”
Source: Swimming Without a Net
“Fred Davis, the doyen of snooker, now 67 years of age and too old to get his leg over, prefers to use his left hand.”
“Fred didn't have a favourite colour. He was just pleased that he could see all of the colours in the colour chart. That was his wish for everyone. Fred wanted people to experience the joy of seeing vivid colours - in nature: the greens and browns of the mountains; in their work: the orange, red and black of the back of the retina; and in life.”
“Fred dislikes the idea going into the ministry partly because he doesn't like "feeling obligated to look serious", and he centers his doubts on "what people expect of a clergyman".”
Source: Middlemarch
“Fred gets off to change at the Northern line, and so does the young woman in the green cape; he notices that she has been reading Joseph Conrad’s Chance. He quickens his pace, for he is a Conrad fan; then, uncertain of what he’s going to say to her, slows down. The young woman gives him a regretful backward glance as she turns toward the stairs to the southbound platform.”
Source: Foreign Affairs
“Fred Harrison claimed in his book Ricardo's Law: House Prices and the Great Tax Clawback System that property owners are generally able to clawback their cumulative income tax payments through gains made from land values, while renters are financially penalized by income taxes. Thus, the progressive income tax is a scam by which the poor subsidize the rich.”
Source: Land: A New Paradigm for a Thriving World
“Fred Harrison explains in The Power in the Land how land values over time become so expensive that too little wealth is left to pay for goods and services. Real estate speculation allows property owners to demand tomorrow's wealth output today, because they have the power to withhold land from use in expectation of future gains. Artificial constrictions in the supply of land make the price increase at a rate the economy can't sustain. Land eventually becomes unaffordable and recession follows leading to a bust before the next boom commences.”
Source: Land: A New Paradigm for a Thriving World
“Fred Hoyle and I differ on lots of questions, but on this we agree: a common sense and satisfying interpretation of our world suggests the designing hand of a superintelligence.”
“Fred is not embarrassed by this attention. He is used to it, regards it as normal, doesn’t in fact realize that few other humans are gazed at so often or so intensely. Since babyhood his appearance has attracted admiration, and often comment. It was soon clear that he had inherited his mother’s brunette, lushly romantic good looks: her thick wavy dark hair, her wide-set cilia-fringed brown eyes (“wasted on a boy,” many remarked).”
Source: Foreign Affairs
“Fred is officially the mayor of Portland now.”
Source: Requiem (Delirium Trilogy 3)
“Fred looked at me grimly. "It's not right," he said. "It is," I Said. "What's right and what's permitted are sometimes different things.”
Source: The War I Finally Won
“Fred Olmsted sat at the edge of the stagecoach seat, chattering to his father about their trip. How exciting to see the towns and forests of western New York! Suddenly, Fred stopped talking. That roar in the distance could only be one thing. Niagara Falls!”
Source: Parks for the People: A Story About Frederick Law Olmsted
“Fred prepared a board game he had created for the entire family to play. And they did.”
Source: Blazing Night
“Fred’s vacuum-rated armor protected him from the smell of viscera, but it reported it to him as a slight increase in atmospheric methane levels. The stench of death reduced to a data point.”
Source: The Butcher of Anderson Station
“Fred Saberhagen was alive when born. He means to continue.”
“Fred said, “Man, I think he’s gonna make a fuckin’ suit of human skin, using the best parts from each of us.”
“Holy crap,” said John. “He’ll be gorgeous.”
Source: John Dies at the End
“Fred Savage,he's America's sweetheart, like I always say. One of the funniest, nicest, most decent... I love him like a brother.”
“Fred Silverman, the head of ABC, he offered me a lot of comedy series but I told him I'd already been the best comedy series around, "The Odd Couple," and so when he saw that I did Quincy he called my agent and said, Jack turns me down? All my good series and he ends up playing an undertaker." And this was the HEAD of ABC series.”
“Fred Sturm has proven to be a great asset to the musical world as a teacher, composer and author. His gifts have enriched the musical life of all the people who have been fortunate enough to share his wisdom and musicality.”
“Fred Trueman the man has often been tactless, haphazard, crude, a creature of impulse.”
“Fred uppstår när vi uppstår.”
Source: Mücadele Muhabbet: Gospel of An Unarmed Soldier
“Fred Wilson is a legendary VC and the Managing Partner of Union Square Ventures in New York City. At AVC, he writes one of the most popular startup blogs and covers issues from negotiation to hiring to fundraising. He's a machine for dispensing helpful advice and insightful commentary for those in our industry.”
“FRED WOLF: No one goes to Hollywood to meet their future husband or wife, or buy a house and have kids. They all go to Hollywood because they're kind of damaged and there's something they're searching for.”
Source: Live from New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live
“Fred är enkelt, krig är komplext. Kärlek är enkelt, hat är komplext.”
Source: Either Reformist or Terrorist: If You Are Terror I Am Your Grandfather
“Fred är ett annat namn för kärlek.”
Source: Sleepless for Society
“Fred är inget uttalande, fred är existens.”
Source: Mücadele Muhabbet: Gospel of An Unarmed Soldier
“Fred är inte en fråga om diplomati, det är en fråga om icke-sekterism.”
Source: Heart Force One: Need No Gun to Defend Society
“Fred, you next," the plump woman said. "I'm not Fred, I'm George," said the boy. "Honestly, woman, you call yourself our mother? Can't you tell I'm George?" "Sorry, George, dear." "Only joking, I am Fred," said the boy and off he went.”