Aliyya Jacobs Quotes & Sayings

I need the shade of blue that rips your heart out. You don't see that type of blue around here. — Cath Crowley

What strikes me now as the most wonderful proof of my fitness, or unfitness, for the times is the fact that nothing people were writing or talking about had any real interest for me. Only the object haunted me, the separate, detached, insignificant thing. It might be a part of the human body or a staircase in a vaudeville house; it might be a smokestack or a button I had found in the gutter. Whatever it was it enabled me to open up, to surrender, to attach my signature. To the life about me, to the people who made up the world I knew, I could not attach my signature. I was as definitely outside their world as a cannibal is outside the bounds of civilized society. I was filled with a perverse love of the thing-in-itself - not a philosophic attachment, but a passionate, desperately passionate hunger, as if in this discarded, worthless thing which everyone ignored there was contained the secret of my own regeneration. — Henry Miller

I'd love to start some movements. What I'm tired of is irony, and sarcasm, and music/movies/what have you, not having the guts to mean anything. — Don Hertzfeldt

We live in a complex age where many of the problems we face can, whatever their origins, only have solutions that involve a deep understanding of science and technology. — Carl Sagan

There is a wrong way to look for advice,
and there is a right way that will suffice.
Seek truth and all will be alright,
not what you want to hear,
not what you want to be right. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Personally I am very much against the death penalty for several reasons. — Alan Parker

I would say I have compassion. — Kim Delaney

I've always said it's better to be hated than it is to be ignored. Maybe on the same lines, it's better to feel this than to feel nothing. — Gayle Forman

The man of genius knows what he is aiming at; nobody else knows. And he alone knows when something comes between him and his object. In the course of generations, however, men will excuse you for not doing as they do, if you will bring enough to pass in your own way. — Henry David Thoreau

I refuse to be molded into some stereotypical ballplayer that has no interests, really, no life, no depth, no intelligence. — Barry Zito

Patience in our lives springs from God's power
based upon our willingness to learn it. — Billy Graham

Whenever I meet with nutritionists, we discuss the idea of having everything in moderation and that people should eat protein or fiber when they eat sugar. — Dylan Lauren

The tiny flame that lights up the human heart is like a blazing torch that comes down from heaven to light up the paths of mankind. For in one soul are contained the hopes and feelings of all Mankind. — Khalil Gibran