Girdling Avocado Quotes & Sayings

Because I was a shy and awkward child, I used humour to deflect attention. It was a controlling mechanism. Because I could use it to control my image.
Catherine Tate — Catherine Tate

You were the one who taught me that love was never what we expected it to be and that it was all that we needed. — Alice Hoffman

As he talked, Aphros drew some wicked-looking metal spikes from his belt. Leo was afraid he had said something wrong, but Aphros pulled some seaweed yarn from his pouch and started knitting. "Go on," he urged. "Don't stop. — Rick Riordan

Hippies survived Nixon, but punk caved in to Ronald Reagan, know what I'm saying? Punk actually couldn't take a good challenge. — Legs McNeil

Every moment and every event of everyman's life on earth plants something in his soul. For just as the wind carries thousands of winged seeds, so each moment brings with it germs of spiritual vitality that come to rest imperceptibly in the minds and wills of men. — Thomas Merton

I certainly had no intention of playing a man. — Fiona Shaw

Herschel was a Jew."
"And he was my best friend."
"He was his best friend."
"And I murdered him. — Jonathan Safran Foer

We may forget the pain, but the memories are always painted in our heart. — John

An artist has been defined as a neurotic who continually cures himeself with his art — Lee Simonson

[H]e lay awake, dreading the dawn when he would have to say good-bye to the small universe he had built for himself over the years. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Chemistry cannot be manufactured or forced, so Wild Flag was not a sure thing, it was a 'maybe,' a 'possibility.' But after a handful of practice sessions, spread out over a period of months, I think we all realized that we could be greater than the sum of our parts. — Carrie Brownstein

Be creative. Men only learnt how to fly when they stopped imitating birds. — Paulo Coelho

If we can't be free at least we can be cheap. — Frank Zappa

That's why this generation is the least racist generation ever. You see it all the time. Go to any club. People are intermingling, hanging out, having fun, enjoying the same music. Hip-hop is not just in the Bronx anymore. It's worldwide. Everywhere you go, people are listening to hip-hop and partying together. Hip-hop has done that. — Jay-Z

The saying that money doesn't buy you happiness is true. But it sure as fuck helps. — Chelsea Handler