Christiania Today Quotes & Sayings

'What can your kids teach you?' Well, I believe something different about kids. We don't own them, they have their own knowledge. From the start you have to make the choice to listen. — Faye Wattleton

My whole life has been a huge mistake, but what a divine mistake - doing something that I adore. — Manolo Blahnik

I like poems that are complex. — Peter Davison

The Poison Maiden has conceived by him, and is plumb ready to enter the divine category of mother, only one last fiend clubs her to death. The final clinch of male romanticism is that each man kills the thing he loves; whether she be Catharine in A Farewell to Arms, or the Grecian Urn, the 'tension that she be perfect' means that she must die, leavinf the hero's status as a great lover unchallenged. The pattern is still commonplace: the hero cannot marry. The sexual exploit must be conquest, not cohabitation and mutual tolerance. — Germaine Greer

It was as if life elsewhere was a reflection through a dusty glass, and this was the real deal. — Chrystalla Thoma

I have simply said that there's just a side of me that could not judge anybody singing. It's not who I am. I don't want to be that person. — Steve Perry

I believe that in the history of art and of thought there has always been at every living moment of culture a will to renewal. This is not the prerogative of the last decade only. All history is nothing but a succession of crises - of rupture, repudiation and resistance. When there is no crisis, there is stagnation, petrifaction and death. All thought, all art is aggressive. — Eugene Ionesco

The chief problem with television is that, for those who watch it consistently, it undermines and eventually destroys the ability to think. This is because it communicates primarily images, not by words, and words are necessary if we are to perceive logical connections and make judgments as to what is right and wrong. — James Montgomery Boice

When you cannot be deceived by men you will have realised the wisdom of strategy. — Miyamoto Musashi

In the uproar, the confusion
of accents and inflections
how will you hear me when I open my mouth?
Look for me, one of the drab population
under fissured edifices, fractured
artifices. Make my various
names flock overhead,
I will follow you. — Li-Young Lee

If I got paid, it was no more than five dollars a column, and I still think I was overpaid. — Dick Schaap