Chikao Quotes & Sayings

Beware the average man the average woman
beware their love, their love is average
seeks average
but there is genius in their hatred
there is enough genius in their hatred to kill you
to kill anybody
not wanting solitude
not understanding solitude
they will attempt to destroy anything
that differs from their own
not being able to create art
they will not understand art
they will consider their failure as creators
only as a failure of the world — Charles Bukowski

Then we fucked so that we could pretend that nothing hurtful had just happened. — Junot Diaz

But though there are frequent misunderstandings between the Europeans and the Americans, at least we've had decades of shared movies and TV to help us get used to each other. Outside those bounds you can't make any assumptions at all. In China, for instance, the poet James Fenton was once stopped for having a light on his bicycle.
"How would it be," the police officer asked him severely, "if everybody did that? — Douglas Adams

This look of thine will hurl my soul from heaven. — William Shakespeare

I am trying to talk about what blue means, or what it means to me, apart from meaning. — Maggie Nelson

Sarcasm," he said, "is like throwing a stick at your enemy when you've run out of bullets." Siri — Colin Cotterill

Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place? — Arthur Erickson

Now for good or ill, California is the place where trends tend to be set in Western civilization - if civilization indeed it is. California, for several generations now, has been the newest, biggest, most experimental place in the newest, biggest, most experimental part of liberal Western capitalism - which is itself a new experiment for mankind. — P. J. O'Rourke

Human beings need three basic things in order to be content: they need to feel competent at what they do; they need to feel authentic in their lives; and they need to feel connected to others. These values are considered "intrinsic" to human happiness and far outweigh "extrinsic" values such as beauty, money and status. — Sebastian Junger