Basta Love Quotes & Sayings

What's that sticky stuff called?
Basta: Duct tape.
Yes, duct tape. I love duct tape. — Cornelia Funke

True compassion does not come from wanting to help out those less fortunate than ourselves but from realizing our kinship with all beings. — Pema Chodron

The voluntary captive
The speechless the prisoner
Which I hide in my very depths ... — Anne Desclos

It's more interesting for me to stick things out anonymously - you get more of an honest reaction to what you've done. — Aphex Twin

Affection is like bread, unnoticed till we starve, and then we dream of it, and sing of it, and paint it, when every urchin in the street has more than he can eat. — Emily Dickinson

Nelson Mandela was not free
because of his attitude
towards life and love.
Petra Hermans
October 4, 2016 — Petra Hermans

If we leave that general descriptive talk where everything which looks like a poem can be called a poem and turn instead to normative talk, we will of course not recognize as a poem everything that looks like a poem. A real poem has to be a successful poem, a successful speech act. In approximately the same way that only a mathematical proof which really proves something can be called a mathematical proof. It is not enough that it looks like a proof. The proof has to prove. For the poem it is not enough to look like a poem. It has to achieve something. — Lars Gustafsson

When I was a kid there was a TV interstitial during Saturday morning cartoons with a song that went like this: "The most important person in the whole wide world is you, and you hardly even know you. / You're the most important person!" Is this not the absolute worst thing you could instill in a child? They're the most important person? In the world? That's what they already think. You need to teach them the opposite. — Tina Fey

Lover? se asks, her voice reminding me of someone human. — Bret Easton Ellis

I believe in the Enlightenment, Devra. And I don't think that's gonna change. Not now. Not ever. — Felicia Hajra-Lee

The rationale for the vast network of government welfare programs as well as regulation and control over private enterprise is based on the socialist analysis of the market economy. — Richard Ebeling

My father, who had dropped dead while working, had not really worked for our pleasant flat - the — Edith Hahn Beer

I LIKE WHEN YOU WALK far enough that a kind of relaxation happens and you can be inside the rhythm of your feet. Your brain shifts like a car; you settle down, look around, and feel ah. In a more slow-motion way, you see where you are. And where I am is outside and free, on a summer day. There are times you know — Elizabeth Berg