Alakaina Quotes & Sayings

The first time I went to therapy, I had to stop going because they were making me hate my parents. — Chloe Sevigny

I shall set down in a few lines how upright Maldoror was during his early years, when he lived happy. There: done. — Comte De Lautreamont

I've always looked for the perfect life to step into. I've taken all the paths to get where I wanted. But no matter where I go, I still come home. — Layne Staley

It harms a man more to wound his heart than to hurt his body. — Yoshida Kenko

William the Testy. On the contrary, he conceived that the true wisdom of legislation consisted in the multiplicity of laws. He accordingly had great punishments for great crimes, and little punishments for little offences. By degrees the whole surface of society was cut up by ditches and fences, and quickset hedges of the law, and even the sequestered paths of private life so beset by petty rules and ordinances, too numerous to be remembered, that one could scarce walk at large without the risk of letting off a spring-gun or falling into a man-trap. In a little while the blessings of innumerable laws became apparent; a class of men arose to expound and confound them. Petty courts were instituted to take cognizance of petty offences, pettifoggers began to abound, and the community was soon set together by the ears. — Washington Irving

As long as we focus on the outside, there will always be that empty, hungry, lost place inside that needs to be filled. — Shakti Gawain

Though Marcus' essay extends over 13 pages of small text, at its core is a very simple premise: Contemporary American fiction has lost its innovative edge and its interest in language as art, and Jonathan Franzen is largely, if not exclusively, to blame. — Jess Row

I happen to have worked with male directors who don't understand women at all. Not at all. I'm flabbergasted by their ignorance. — Catherine McCormack

On Juan Rulfo:
His published writings add up to no more than 300 pages, but they are just as many, and I believe just as enduring, as those that we know of Sophocles. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

What he might call cowardice other people called common sense. — Toni Morrison

Happiness is estentially a state of going somewhere wholeheartedly. — W.H. Sheldon