Alloush Livonia Quotes & Sayings

Comfort is the enemy of the artist. — Stephen Tobolowsky

Music doesn't solve your problems..but allows you to dance all over them — Chad Smith

Television and radio violence was considered by most experts of minimal importance as a contributory cause of youthful killing ... there were always enough experts to assure the public that crime and violence had nothing to do with crime and violence. — Marya Mannes

Be. So I follow the Lindy effect as a guide in selecting what to read: books that have been around for ten years will be around for ten more; books that have been around for two millennia should be around for quite a bit of time, and so forth. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own. — Alexis De Tocqueville

Ah, wasteful woman, she who may
On her sweet self set her own price,
Knowing man cannot choose but pay,
How has she cheapened paradise;
How given for nought her priceless gift,
How spoiled the bread and spilled the wine,
Which, spent with due respective thrift,
Had made brutes men and men divine. — Coventry Patmore

Our culture is definitely the eighth grade. It's run by eighth-grade boys, and the way these boys show a girl they like her is by humiliating her and making her cry. — Merrill Markoe

The houses were squat and almost identical and each one had a square of grass in front of it like a dog gripping a stolen steak. — Flannery O'Connor

Tallulah [Bankhead] is always skating on thin ice. Everyone wants to be there when it breaks. — Mrs. Patrick Campbell

Your absence has gone through me — W.S. Merwin

Two Leilas seemed to be battling it out inside me. The first was outraged that he still considered it a fait accompli that I'd give in to him, and the second ... that slutty bitch was wondering what Vlad looked like naked. — Jeaniene Frost

The mind and the body are inextricably entwined, and rarely are their inseparability clearer than when we're under some kind of mental pressure. The moment we start trying to learn a new skill, make a decision or otherwise think on our feet, our nervous system reacts - with accelerated pulse rate, increased respiration, even sweating. — Jeffrey Kluger

theories are nice, evidence is better. — LaRae Quy

Of course, presidents are always blamed or rewarded for the state of the economy. — James Surowiecki