Desidia En Quotes & Sayings

It's no accident that most ads are pitched to people in their 20s and 30s. Not only are they so much cuter than their elders...but they are less likely to have gone through the transformative process of cleaning out their deceased parents' stuff. Once you go through that, you can never look at *your* stuff in the same way. You start to look at your stuff a little postmortemistically. If you've lived more than two decades as an adult consumer, you probably have quite the accumulation, even if you're not a hoarder...I'm not saying I never buy stuff, because I absolutely do. Maybe I'm less naive about the joys of accumulation. — Roz Chast

The evasions of her little novel were exactly those of her life. Everything she did not wish to confront was also missing from her novella
and was necessary to it. — Ian McEwan

Meditation is wondering. It is both wondering and wonder. — Frederick Lenz

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them. — Blaise Pascal

God: But it is my creation...!

The Saint of Killers: It's outgrown you. — Garth Ennis

It's not ideas, nor vision, nor tools that truly matter in therapy. If you debrief patients at the end of therapy about the process, what do they remember? Never the ideas - it's always the relationship. — Irvin D. Yalom

Let us candidly admit that there are shameful blemishes on the American past, of which the worst by far is rum. Nevertheless, we have improved man's lot and enriched his civilization with rye, bourbon and the Martini cocktail. In all history has any other nation done so much? — Bernard DeVoto

It only takes a day to change someone from an anti-intellectual to an intellectual by persuading him that he might be one! — Edwin Land

He was twisted as a pretzel, he was a tinfoil-halo shitnosed frogstomping king rat asshole, but he wasn't stupid. — Margaret Atwood