Boroumand Quotes & Sayings

I visit my assistant mistress. "Well, Azalea," I say, sitting in the best chair, "what has happened to you since my last visit?" Azalea tells me what happened to her. She has covered a sofa, and written a novel. Jack has behaved badly. Roger has lost his job (replaced by an electric eye). Gigi's children are in the hospital being detoxified, all three. Azalea herself is dying of love. I stroke her buttocks, which are perfection, if you can have perfection, under the capitalistic system. "It is better to marry that to burn," St. Paul says, but St. Paul is largely discredited now, for the toughness of his views does not accord with the experience of advanced industrial societies. — Donald Barthelme

Philosophy seems to me on the whole a rather hopeless business. — Bertrand Russell

All language is a popularity contest. — Erin McKean

There's emptiness in him that can never be filled, emptiness that dresses up well at prep school, where a lack of willpower is called creativity. — Caroline Kepnes

Newman has it all worked out. I get a million. He gets a million two, but that includes $200,000 expenses. — Lee Marvin

While your friend holds you affectionately by both your hands, you are safe, for you can watch both his. — Ambrose Bierce

Every day I wake up and I really try to pinch myself to take advantage of today and to use that freedom of gesture to do what I really like to do. — Jeff Koons

Do not try to fix whatever comes in your life. Fix yourself in such a way that whatever comes, you will be fine. — Jaggi Vasudev

If you're not honest with your work - if you're being merely decorative - then the world will know. People intuit honest work. They know when they are being tricked by clever metaphors . . . by dishonesty in the artist. — Michele Zackheim

Dogs want only love but cats demand worship. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

We all start out the same in our mothers' wombs. We, all of us, when floating in the amniotic sea of our earliest oblivion, have gonads. If the Y chromosome didn't swoop in to act on the gonads of some of us and make testes, we would all become women. In biology, the Genesis story is reversed: Adam becomes Adam out of Eve, not the other way around. — Siri Hustvedt

If you're going to play it out of tune, then play it out of tune properly. — Mark E. Smith

I was matter, like everything else. I could feel the slow decay of my body, the absolute certainty of death. Every heartbeat spelt out a new proof of mortality. Every moment was a premature burial. — Greg Egan