“I've chosen a life that's so different from everybody else's that it cuts me off from them. Practically everybody I know treats me like a guest celebrity. Of course it's my own fault. I feel so damn alone sometimes, I feel like I could just float away into the stratosphere and everybody would stand there looking up at me and not one would haul me back down to earth. No ropes.” KnowsFeelsDifferentSometimesEarthCoursesMy OwnCuttingTreatsFaultsChosenDamnGuestsRopeFloatsDown To EarthHaul Author:Jordan Mechner
“I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today - my own government.... There is something strangely inconsistent about a nation and a press that would praise you when you say, 'Be nonviolent toward Jim Clark,' but will curse and damn you when you say, 'Be nonviolent toward little brown Vietnamese children!' There is something wrong with that press.” WorldFirstsChildrenLittlesGovernmentTodayNationsVoiceMy OwnViolencePraiseRaisesPressesDamnCurseBrownOppressedWorld TodayGhettoInconsistentVietnameseDamn You Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“If I were in the President's place, I would not get a chance to resign. I would be lying in a pool of my own blood hearing Mrs. Armey, standing over me, saying, 'How do I reload this damn thing?'” IfsWould BeLyingPresidentChanceMy OwnBloodStandingHearingDamnPoolDamn Things Author:Dick Armey
“it will be objected that a constantly increasing population makes resistance and conservation a hopeless battle. this is true. unless a way is found to stabilize the nation's population, the parks can not be saved. or anything else worth a damn. wilderness preservation, like a hundred other good causes, will be forgotten under the overwhelming pressure of a struggle for mere survival and sanity in a completely urbanized, completely industrialized, ever more crowded environment. for my own part i would rather take my chances in a thermonuclear war than live in such a world.” WorldWayWarFoundNationsCausesChanceMy OwnStruggleEnvironmentBattleSurvivalHundredPressureMereForgottenPopulationSavedResistanceDamnParksWildernessHopelessOverwhelmingSanityConservationCan NotPreservationCrowdedNuclear WarGood Causes Book:Desert Solitaire Source: Desert Solitaire
“I'm never gonna go into a studio and work for a whole year non-stop. Just every day on my own in the studio working, it's just too damn hard.” YearsHardWholeMy OwnStudiosDamnWorking ItWhole YearNon Stop Author:Imogen Heap
“I burned my own damn finger pokin' someone else's fire” My OwnFireFingersDamnBurned Author:Kacey Musgraves