Galas 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

And you did all of this before I awakened?'
'Not all of us can afford to be layabouts ... You upper class types are all the same. Sleep until noon and then fritter your nights away.'
She narrowed her eyes. 'I do not fritter my nights away.'
'Really? And what do you do at night?'
'I go to social events. Parties or galas. Sometimes a musicale. Or a charity event,' she tacked on with satisfaction.
'Well, I must retract my frittering comment in that case.'
'It's not frittering. It's surviving. — Anne Mallory

I don't like ostentatious galas and stuff like that, but if you get to the Oscars, you'd better get used to it and you'd better enjoy it. — Philippe Falardeau

What the customer buys and considers value is never a product. It is always utility, that is, what a product or a service does for the customer. — Peter Drucker

My first proper kiss was from Cara Shucksmith when I was 13 or 14 at her birthday party. — Robert Webb

War is a terrible, bloody thing. — Katlyn Charlesworth

You live and die by results, I asked to be judged on that and people have. — Steve McClaren

I am the common person researching the invisible world for the benefit of the global masses. — Steven Magee

Have this faith that someone is there to take away your weaknesses. Ok, you slipped once, twice, thrice. It does not matter. Keep moving ahead. People take vows never to commit mistakes again. Breaking the vows makes it worse. Surrendering is better — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

All ballet galas are unbearable, but they're unbearable in different ways. — Robert Gottlieb

We were trained from cartoons. Everything who was on the screen was chosen. Anything who was not there was deliberately not there. — John Hench

Newspapers are tutors as well as informers. — Neil Kinnock

There should be a law passed to keep people like me from being alone with their thoughts for too long."

'Mona Rogers in Person — Philip-Dimitri Galas

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

Where I am right now I'm pretty good at. You know, I understand that there's a problem. I'm addressing it. I'm doing the work that I have to do. — Daniel Baldwin

I don't have a life where it's galas, posh affairs. It's me, my dog and a sofa. And a TV. — Phillip Lim

I've been in companies where they have galas. U.S. companies aren't government-funded, so they invite wealthier people to come to these events. It's a very glamorous art form. They send you off to talk to bankers, and they make you feel objectified in a way. — Sarah Hay

Some guys smoke. Some guys drink. Some guys chase women.
I'm a big barbecue-sauce guy. — Rick Majerus

Country acquaintances are charming only in the country and only in the summer. In the city in winter they lose half of their appeal. — Anton Chekhov

It's nice to feel the fans are behind you. You shouldn't concern yourself with things like that - but it does matter. — Dan Marino

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

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

Her eyes slid closed, her secret places pulsed in anticipation, and his lips settled onto the skin beneath her ear.
That was magic.
She held perfectly still.
He pressed a kiss to her neck. Then another, lower. A third, even lower.
She squirmed.
He dropped his hands. "Sorry. I---"
"Don't stop," Kimmie whispered. — Jamie Farrell

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

I am aware that most 27-year-old writers do not co-host galas in their hometowns. — Derek Blasberg

I would like to thank the Commonwealth Games Federation for the very fair manner in which this matter has been dealt with. — Kim Collins

One of my kids was born in 1968. There were going to be political difficulties, but they were never going to have that level of hatred and contempt that my brothers and my sister and myself were exposed to. — Toni Morrison