Famous quotes by Authors

"Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as "a wise Latina" trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism"

Camille Paglia, Author

"Rule of art: Can't kills creativity!"

Camille Paglia, Author

"Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure"

Camille Paglia, Author

"I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity"

Camille Paglia, Author

"The moment is ripe for an experienced businessman to talk practical, prudent economics to the electorate - which is why Mitt Romney's political fortunes are steadily being resurrected from the grave"

Camille Paglia, Author

"The damage done to U.S. prestige by the feckless, buffoonish George W. Bush will take years to repair"

Camille Paglia, Author

"Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it"

Camille Paglia, Author

"Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?"

Camille Paglia, Author

"Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers"

Camille Paglia, Author

"The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience"

Camille Paglia, Author

"Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle"

Camille Paglia, Author

"If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them"

Camille Paglia, Author

"In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act"

George Orwell, Author

"Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below"

George Orwell, Author

"Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards"

George Orwell, Author

"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night, only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf"

George Orwell, Author

"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past"

George Orwell, Author

"I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... There's a thin man inside every fat man"

George Orwell, Author

"Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear"

George Orwell, Author

"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act"

George Orwell, Author

"You send a boy to school in order to make friends - the right sort"

Virginia Woolf, Author

"You cannot find peace by avoiding life"

Virginia Woolf, Author

"Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size"

Virginia Woolf, Author

"The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity"

Virginia Woolf, Author

"One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats - and one always secretes too much jelly"

Virginia Woolf, Author

"Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded"

Virginia Woolf, Author

"It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality"

Virginia Woolf, Author

"Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title"

Virginia Woolf, Author

"If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails"

Leo Buscaglia, Author

"If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance"

Leo Buscaglia, Author

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