Boyarsky Quotes & Sayings

We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets - we remember only. — Henry Miller

I always think about what's the difference between being tenacious and having an inability to learn from failures. The difference between the homeless guy who wanted to be a great painter and the guy who is a great painter could be anything. — Neil Burger

He'd tried to sleep, too, but that was an elusive bitch who had no use for him tonight. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Manly? And what would a kid like you know about manly? Have you even started shaving yet?"
"Only my balls, sir. — S.J.D. Peterson

When we talk about books ... we are talking about our approximate recollections of books ... What we preserve of the books we read - whether we take notes or not, and even if we sincerely believe we remember them faithfully - is in truth no more than a few fragments afloat, like so many islands, on an ocean of oblivion ... We do not retain in memory complete books identical to the books remembered by everyone else, but rather fragments surviving from partial readings, frequently fused together and further recast by our private fantasies. ... What we take to be the books we have read is in fact an anomalous accumulation of fragments of texts, reworked by our imagination and unrelated to the books of others, even if these books are materially identical to ones we have held in our hands. — Pierre Bayard

My greatest pleasure is going out on a horrible, cold, wet January morning to pick the vegetables for our Sunday lunch, putting them in a muddy pile on the table, and then spending 45 minutes washing and preparing them. I like doing it because it's so different to what I do in the week. The same holds for cleaning the car or shining my shoes. — Peter Hargreaves

When you brought light to my darkness, I undiscovered the eclipse! — Avijeet Das

I'm drawn to the unconventional because I've been drawn unconventionally. I believe that I'm supposed to topple over these false images of what's idealistically beautiful. Because, of course, these intangible qualities are very attractive to women. Sincerity. Sense of humor. Success. — CeeLo Green

Oh, anybody can run a tick down that don't belong to them. I'm satisfied with it. It's a good enough tick for me." "Sho, there's — Mark Twain

Temples are like spiritual hospitals, and the sinful, who are spiritually diseased, have the first right to be ministered to by them. — Mahatma Gandhi

Degenerates are not always criminals, prostitutes, anarchists and pronounced lunatics; they are often authors and artists — Max Nordau