Grammophon Quotes & Sayings

THE ALIENS
from The Last Night Of The Earth Poems

you may not believe it
but there are people
who go through life with
very little
friction of distress.
they dress well, sleep well.
they are contented with
their family
life.
they are undisturbed
and often feel
very good.
and when they die
it is an easy death, usually in their
sleep.

you may not believe
it
but such people do
exist.

but i am not one of
them.
oh no, I am not one of them,
I am not even near
to being
one of
them.
but they
are there

and I am
here. — Charles Bukowski

but what can I make of love when we are all born at a different time and place and only meet through a trick of centuries and a chance three steps to the left? you — Charles Bukowski

The grass wasn't greener on the other side of the fence; it was greener where it was watered. — Debbie Macomber

The law against sodomy is trying to stop homosexual men from enjoying themselves. That's what the law is all about. But this is stupid. What do you do according to the law? You find two men enjoying themselves sexually. You arrest them and throw them in ... prison? That outta do it. — Kevin Pollak

A man does not know how he came by the half a pie he is holding in his hand! — Dylan Moran

By stablishing an acquaintance with Lucie, I too had set my destiny in motion; but I did not lose sight of it. Though we didn't meet very often, at least our mettings were fairly regular, and I knew she was capable of waiting several weeks and then greeting me as if we'd seen each other the day before — Milan Kundera

We are bound to our bodies like an oyster to its shell. — Plato

Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason. — Immanuel Kant

There is a fine line between social networking and wasting your fucking life. — Andy Borowitz

Be the weirdo who dares to enjoy. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Sometimes there are four or five cameras in front of your face moving all over the place, and you have to try to see the person in between the cameras, and a sane person would go, "I can't do this." — Courtney B. Vance

Father comes home after many years of forgetting us, of not sending us money, of not loving us, not visiting us, not anything us, and parks in the shack, unable to move, unable to talk properly. unable to anything, vomiting and vomiting, Jesus, just vomiting and defecating on himself, and it smelling like something dead in there, dead and rotting, his body a black, terrible stick; I come in from playing Find bin Laden and he is there. — NoViolet Bulawayo

Very similar experience happened last year when we released this album, North. It was on Deutsche Grammophon, it was very, very honest. It was the most honest record I've ever written. — Elvis Costello