Ajahn Jayasaro Quotes & Sayings

The matter was that never before had she known what she was doing in school. She had always thought she was there to pass from one grade to another, and she was ever so startled to get a glimpse of the fact that she was there to learn how to read and write and cipher and generally use her mind, so she could take care of herself when she came to be grown up. — Dorothy Canfield Fisher

I talk shit about everybody and then sulk when they don't call me, my friends fall away like I've dropped them out of an airplane, my ex-boyfriend thinks I'm Hitler when he sees me. — Daniel Handler

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods. — Plato

Whatever happened behind now was simply that: behind. Lyra had left it. She felt she was leaving the world altogether, so remote and intent she was, so high they were climbing, so strange and uncanny was the light that bathed them. — Philip Pullman

I lead Paco through the house. We pass Shelley in the family room looking at some magazine. "Shelley, this is Paco. He's Alex's friend. Paco, this is my sister, Shelley."
At the mention of Alex's name, Shelley gives a happy squeal.
"Hey, Shelley," Paco says.
Shelley smiles wide.
"Shell-bell, I need you to do me a favor." Shelley bobs her head in response as I whisper, "I need you to keep Mom occupied while I talk to Paco."
Shelley grins, and I know my sister will come through for me. — Simone Elkeles

Don't ask for cash from sponsors, imagine what they want — Matt Prior

Once I was a lamb, playing in a green field. Then the wolves came. Now I am an eagle and I fly in a different universe. — David Gemmell

Pornography, to me, represents freedom. — Jenna Jameson

The voice of the Lord answered from a whirlwind: "Neither am I anyone; I have dreamt the world as you dreamt your work, my Shakespeare, and among the forms in my dream are you, who like myself are many and no one. — Jorge Luis Borges

I was 23 with a mullet doing lots of jerk-off material.I can't look at the old tapes now. — Doug Stanhope