Corny Collins
- Hairspray
Now, don't forget guys and Gidgets - our very first prime-time spectacular is coming up June 6th. We'll be live at Baltimore's brand new Eventorium broadcasting nationwide! Talent scouts will be on hand from all major record labels, and sponsoring the event will be none other than our own ULTRA CLUTCH HAIRSPRAY.
Meowth
- Pokemon
We do have a lot in common, the same earth, the same air, the same sky. Maybe when we start looking at what's the same instead of always looking at what's different... well, who knows?
Melanie Martinez
- Detention
I'm not a bad guy, so don't treat me bad, if I'm feeling sad, alright? Please don't be mad if I don't smile back, alright? If I mess up my words, don't think I'm absurd alright? Alright? I'm physically exhausted, tired of my knuckles beating, I'm chewing gum to pass the time of sadness, can't you see it? You're too busy seeking selfish wishes, don't care how I'm feeling. You write me up and say it's love, and I can't believe it.
Melanie Martinez
- Cry Baby
You seem to replace your brain with your heart. You take things so hard and then you fall apart. You try to explain but before you can start, those cry baby tears come out of the dark. Someone's turning the handle to the faucet in your eyes. They're pouring out where everyone can see. Your heart's too big for your body - that's why you won't fit inside - you're pouring out where everyone can see.
Melanie Martinez
- Tag, You're It
Looking at me through your window, boy you had your eye out for a little. I'll cut you up and make you dinner - you've reached the end, you are the winner. Rolling down your tinted window, driving next to me real slow, he said, "Let me take you for a joyride... I've got some candy for you inside."
Kurt Vonnegut
- Breakfast of Champions
As I approached my fiftieth birthday, I had become more and more enraged and mystified by the idiot decisions made by my countrymen. And then I had come suddenly to pity them, for I understood how innocent and natural it was for them to behave so abominably, and with such abominable results; they were doing their best to live like people invented in storybooks. This was the reason Americans shot each other so often; it was a convenient literary device for ending short stories and books.
Kurt Vonnegut
- On Sexuality
If you go back through history, you'll find that the people who have been most eager to rule, to make the laws, to enforce the laws, and to tell everybody exactly how God Almighty wants things here on Earth - those people have forgiven themselves and their friends for anything and everything. But they have been absolutely disgusted and terrified by the natural sexuality of common men and women.
Kurt Vonnegut
- Slaughterhouse-Five
Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by the American poor.
Izuku Midoriya
- My Hero Academia- Origin
It all began in China, Qingqing City. There was news that a baby that gave off light was born. Ever since then, superpowers were discovered in various places, and time passed without the cause being identified. Before we knew it, the supernatural became normal, and dreams became reality. The world has become a superhuman society, and about 80% of the world.
A college professor
- Learning
I take a different approach to assignments than most - if you do not successfully complete an assignment, then I will give you feedback, and let you know where you need to improve. You may then re-submit the assignment to be re-graded. I do not typically take off points for lateness. My reasoning is this - what I want you to do is learn the material. I am not especially concerned about when during the course you learn the material.
Anonymous
- A BreakUp
It doesn't matter if you believe it or not. I'm done with us. We're not suitable. We're impractical. And quite frankly, when we're not shouting at each other, we're constantly pretending this whole facade is working.
Anonymous
- Day and Night Accomplishments
When you wake up every morning, what strikes you to accomplish? Conversely, when you go to bed at night, do you feel any closer to accomplishing it? Personally, I don't know why I greet the sun's piercing rays every passing day, or why I enter the numbing darkness of sleep every night feeling so empty inside. Somehow, ludicrously, I think I've accomplished serene emptiness.
Curtis Baldwin
- Alphabetical
I love and hate the word alphabetical. It just dances around the outsides of the keyboard using nearly every finger on your hands if you are one of the people that types the way they taught you in elementary school.
unknown
- The Game
The Game is the name of a mind game. The goal is not to think about The Game itself. If someone thinks about The Game, they lose. If someone loses, they must tell someone or announce that they "lost The Game." You just lost the game.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
- The Custom House
Meanwhile the press had taken up my affair, and kept me, for a week or two, careering through the public prints, in my decapitated state, like Irving's Headless Horseman; ghastly and grim, and longing to be buried, as a politically dead man ought. So much for my figurative self. The real human being, all this time, with his head safely on his shoulders, had brought himself to the comfortable conclusion that everything was for the best;.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
- The Custom House
The moment when a man's head drops off is seldom or never, I am inclined to think, precisely the most agreeable of his life. Nevertheless, like the greater part of our misfortunes, even so serious a contingency brings its remedy and consolation with it, if the sufferer will but make the best, rather than the worst, of the accident which has befallen him.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
- The Custom House
Uncle Sam's gold - meaning no disrespect to the worthy old gentleman - has, in this respect, a quality of enchantment like that of the Devil's wages. Whoever touches it should look well to himself, or he may find the bargain to go hard against him, involving, if not his soul, yet many of its better attributes; its sturdy force, its courage and constancy, its truth, its self-reliance, and all that gives the emphasis to manly character.
Jack H
- School life
There is something about going to school that bugs me. We wake up very early in the morning to go to a place where the sole purpose is to learn information, 90% of which we forget the next year we go to school, and this cycle continues until we leave.
Voltaire
- Lord Pococurante from Candide
"Fools admire everything in a celebrated author. I only read to please myself, and I only like what suits me." Candide, who had been taught never to judge anything for himself, was greatly surprised by what he heard; and Martin thought Pococurante's way of thinking was, quote, reasonable.
phrog
- Captain America: Civil War - Sharon Carter
Compromise where you can. Where you can't, don't. Even if everyone is telling you that something wrong is something right. Even if the whole world is telling you to move, it is your duty to plant yourself like a tree, look them in the eye, and say: "No, you move."
