Diamanda Quotes & Sayings

I think God is a callous bitch not making me a lesbian. I'm deeply disappointed by my sexual interest in men. — Diamanda Galas

Then and only then will you realize that your greatest enemy isn't what you fight but what you fear. — Virginia Boecker

A photograph is a universe of dots. The grain, the halide, the little silver things clumped in the emulsion. Once you get inside a dot, you gain access to hidden information, you slide into the smallest event. This is what technology does. It peels back the shadows and redeems the dazed and rumbling past. It makes reality come true. — Don DeLillo

But learned people can analyze for me why I fear hell and their implication is that there is no hell. But I believe in hell. Hell seems a great deal more feasible to my weak mind than heaven. No doubt because hell is a more earth-seeming thing. I can fancy the tortures of the damned but I cannot imagine the disembodied souls hanging in a crystal for all eternity praising God. — Flannery O'Connor

Every age cuts and pastes history to suit its own purposes; art always has an ax to grind. — Ada Louise Huxtable

I wake up and I see the face of the devil and I ask him, "What time is it?"
And he says,
How much time do you want? — Diamanda Galas

Anybody can shrug and say life is just some accident of mud and lightning. But Henry, it isn't. And I mean to show you, in the time we have together
whether it's an hour or a day of whatever it is
I mean to show you that you just have to open your heart and look
you hear me, look
and you'll see every minute a hundred reasons to believe."
"Oh, will you?" Henry said, irritated by Diamanda's tone. "And where will I find these hundred reasons?"
"Everywhere!" Diamanda said. "Don't you see we're born into a pattern so huge and so beautiful and so full of meaning we can only hope to understand a tiny part of it in the seventy or eighty years we live with breath in our bodies? But one day, it will all come clear. — Clive Barker

Bring anger and pride under your feet,
turn them into a ladder and climb higher. — Rumi

I don't get on with novelists, don't enjoy their company. Once you've worked for a publisher, you understand the species, see them in their natural habitat, and it's not always pretty. — Neil Cross

It seems stupid when people limit themselves to one kind of music. It tells me they're not using their ears. — Diamanda Galas

I don't want to know about the constitution of the rapist
I want to kill him! I don't care if he is white or black, if he is middle-class or poor, if his mother hung him from the clothesline by his balls: I only want to kill him! Any woman who has been raped will agree. — Diamanda Galas

If you think I wear the cloak of filth, then let me tell you baby, I wear it real good. — Diamanda Galas

Nobody would be an actor if he/she were not charming at some level. — Katrina Kaif

I think the time has come for us to embrace spirituality as a domain of awareness where we all experience our universal nature, where we all experience our inseparability, where we all know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of creation. — Deepak Chopra

All they got locked up in this hole is my body. That's all they got, my body, not me. I'm everywhere, see? Everywhere you look, junior, everywhere you go. — William Landay