Asadin Quotes & Sayings

It is frighteningly bizarre to hear myself described this way; a set of statistics, a musical instrument, and nothing more. — Amy Ewing

There are several books out on punk history, but I haven't read any of them. I was there. — Greg Ginn

I work best after the deadline has passed, when I'm in a panic. — Tony Kushner

Whoever takes just plain ginger ale soon gets drowned out of the conversation. — Kin Hubbard

I have to admit that I only read 'War and Peace' when I was 40. But I knew the basics before then. — Umberto Eco

Our civilization represses not only "the instincts", not only sexuality, but any form of transcendence. Among one-dimensional men, it is not surprising that someone with an insistent experience of other dimensions, that he cannot entirely deny or forget, will run the risk either of being destroyed by the others, or of betraying what he knows. — R.D. Laing

Grant kissed my neck that I offered up like a willing victim in True Blood. Take me ... Bite me. Lick me. Oh this was madness! Glorious, wonderful madness!
-Julie
From: A New Addiction — Valerie Alexander

My own mum cared about Hollywood, and I didn't. I wanted to act, and I loved the creativity of it, but I didn't care for the lifestyle. — Drew Barrymore

Sometimes, perhaps, we are allowed to get lost that we may find the right person to ask directions of. — Robert Breault

The semanticists maintained that everything depends on how you interpret the words "potato," "is" and "moving." Since the key here is the operational copula "is," one must examine "is" rigorously. Whereupon they set to work on an Encyclopedia of Cosmic Semasiology, devoting the first four volumes to a discussion of the operational referents of "is." The neopositivists maintained that it is not clusters of potatoes one directly perceives, but clusters of sensory impressions. Then, employing symbolic logic, they created terms for "cluster of impressions" and "cluster of potatoes," devised a special calculus of propositions all in algebraic signs and after using up several seas of ink reached the mathematically precise and absolutely undeniable conclusion that 0=0. — Stanislaw Lem