Degonza Quotes & Sayings

My litmus test of compatibility is 'Tom Cruise.' I hate people who hate Tom Cruise, cultural automatons who at the mention of his name reflexively bridle and say the diminutive thespian and Theta level Scientoligist is 'crazy' and 'a terrible actor'. They hate him because he's easy to hate. They think that despising Tom Cruise's lack of personality and supposed lack of talent is somehow a blow against the bland American Anschluss of the rest of the planet. Tom Cruise may indeed be the Christopher Columbus of the twentieth century, sent off by the kings of Hollywood to prove the new world of International Box Office isn't flat and to find a direct route into the Asian market, but the decline of everything isn't his fault; he's just a cinematic explorer and a damn fine actor. And hating him doesn't make you seditious- it makes you complicit. — Paul Beatty

I knew you'd know," Mom said in a stabilizing, more confident, yet still husky voice. A smile broke across her face in the simple relief of her only remaining child not being shocked by the death of her youngest. She smiled genuinely, perhaps for the first time since cradling Dustin's body as the fire truck alarm blared towards the house in response to her 911 call. Her son had died that morning in her arms as she tried resuscitating him with her own breath, but the first indication of her daughter's reaction was calm. The child raised to expect death met the first moments of the news with seeming serenity. — Darcy Leech

She mesmerized lecture halls of students with her drama and passion, with ideas critics called daring and groundbreaking. — Jandy Nelson

You can tell a horse owner by the interior of their car. Boots, mud, pony nuts, straw, items of tack and a screwed-up waxed jacket of incredible antiquity. There is normally a top layer of children and dogs. — Helen Thompson Woolley

Lawlessness is a self-perpetuating, ever-expanding habit. — Dorothy Thompson

I'll be back later! Put that champagne on ice! — Jackie Williams

A lot of the time when I'm working, I'm abroad. — Asif Kapadia

You create your opportunities by asking for them. — Shakti Gawain

People ask me where I got my singing style. I didn't copy my style from anybody. — Elvis Presley

Winter garden,
the moon thinned to a thread,
insects singing. — Matsuo Basho

Reading is an intimate act, perhaps more intimate than any other human act. I say that because of the prolonged (or intense) exposure of one mind to another. — Harold Brodkey

Sometimes the most exciting journey you can make is through your own imagination. — Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet

To be just, a law has to be flexible. — Gloria Steinem

I was very intellectually oriented, very early on. — Donald Johanson