Chaken Quotes & Sayings

Maybe people could fall in love without an identity crisis. — Leah Raeder

Men are not listeners ... They hear what they expect to hear, or want to hear, or are certain they will hear, and women, being supple creatures trained to please, have often told them what we women knew would satisfy them. [p. 167] — Carolyn G. Heilbrun

I really think that women should be allowed to be more European, in this country. — Sally Kirkland

The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President. — Lyndon B. Johnson

I don't demonize the downside. As we've seen in Egypt and Tahrir square and other recent event, the adhesiveness through [technology] kinds of communication is extraordinary. Interesting times we live in. — Anne Waldman

A manager doesn't hear the cheers. — Alvin Dark

Since 1950 I have been keeping a film diary. I have been walking around with my Bolex and reacting to the immediate reality: situations, friends, New York, seasons of the year. On some days I shoot ten frames, on others ten seconds, still on others ten minutes. Or I shoot nothing. Walden contains material from the years 1964-1968 strung together in chronological order. — Jonas Mekas

Don't explain, enjoy. — Walter Darby Bannard

And the reason is that until Wonder came along and figured out how to spread the idea of sliced bread, no one wanted it. That the success of sliced bread is not always about what the patent is like or what the factory is like, it's about can you get your idea to spread or not? — Seth Godin

The Bible is the best motivational book. — Lailah Gifty Akita

She's not your friend. She's a barmaid. — Sara Gruen

... not once more will/I be found with beings/who swallowed the rail of life//And one day I found myself with beings/who swallowed the nail of life/-as soon as I lost my matrix mamma,//and the being twisted under him,/and god poured me back to her/(the motherfucker)... — Antonin Artaud

I don't get my authority from this preexisting paradigm which is quite narrow and only serves a few people. I look elsewhere for alternatives that might be of service to humanity. — Russell Brand

It is a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract. — Alan Shepard

Reading Proust is like bathing in someone else's dirty water. — Alexander Woollcott