Avessimo Quotes & Sayings

In AA, you are brainwashed into believing that all the good stuff happens only after you stop drinking. Clearly they are lying; my life improved significantly as soon as I ordered a cocktail. — Augusten Burroughs

It would have been very alarming - morally, and in other ways too - if an attack of that nature, the 11 September attacks, had not aroused in us and in our governments and societies the spirit of self-defence. If that had not been one of the responses it seems to me there would have been very grave cause for concern. — Christopher Hitchens

If you could meet your grandkids as elderly citizens in the year 2100 ... you would view them as being, basically, Greek gods ... that's where we're headed. — Michio Kaku

You adapt yourself to the contents of the paintbox. — Paul Klee

Everything that we experience every day leaves a long-lasting impression. — Pharrell Williams

All I'm saying is, kindness don't have no boundaries. — Kathryn Stockett

Ever since I watched 'Roots,' I've dreamed of tracing my African ancestry and helping other people do the same. — Henry Louis Gates

Impaler,' she declared, 'I have no equal. — Kim Newman

Behind her warm facade radiating empathy and understanding, there was an aggressive, bad- tempered bitch, putting up endless walls of goodness to conceal her rage and resentment toward the entire world. She was like an alligator in a velvet jumpsuit. — Zygmunt Miloszewski

I think the language as spoken in Limerick and Cork has not really been written; 'City of Bohane' is a combination of the two. Bohane is a little kingdom. When I began writing it, I realised that it was in the future and that it was a place that didn't care about anything that happened outside it. — Kevin Barry

Nothing, indeed, is more revolting to English feelings than the spectacle of a human being obtruding on our notice his moral ulcers or scars, and tearing away that "decent drapery" which time or indulgence to human frailty may have drawn over them; accordingly, the greater part of our confessions (that is, spontaneous and extra-judicial confessions) proceed from demireps, adventurers, or swindlers. — Thomas De Quincey

If ever this free people, if this Government itself is ever utterly demoralized, it will come from this incessant human wriggle and struggle for office, which is but a way to live without work. — Abraham Lincoln

It doesn't really matter what you do. It is your state of mind that matters. — Frederick Lenz