Ionescos Quotes & Sayings

We are confusing making "progress" with eradicating the larger problem. — Carlos Wallace

When Black Flag and DOA and all those bands were touring in the early 80s, it was kind of a forest and you just kind of got your way through it. Now it's like a six lane highway with Starbucks every twenty meters. That's just civilization. — Henry Rollins

When grace combines with wrinkles, it is admirable. There is an indescribable light of dawn about intensely happy old age ... The young person is handsome, but the old, superb. — Victor Hugo

Will wolfed down his sandwich, drank half his water, and went to work examining the boxes. He discovered that all of them had dates scrawled on the side, so he cranked up to his highest speed, motored around the room rearranging them, and had them neatly arranged in chronological order in less than twenty minutes. Three equal rows, forty boxes in each, lined up in the center of the room. Some were sealed; most were open. Their weight varied greatly; some were packed solid and heavy with books and ledgers, while others contained nothing but rolled-up maps. — Mark Frost

Suddenly you're like a pirate, you're 65 years old and you've got an earring. — Fred Willard

While it is undeniable that many have been driven to immorality and crime by the need to survive, it is equally evident that the possession of a significant surplus of material goods has never been a guarantee against covetousness, rapacity and the infinite variety of vice and pain which spring from such passions. Indeed, it could be argued that the unrelenting compulsion of those who already have much to acquire even more has generated greater injustice, immorality and wretchedness than the cumulative effect of the struggles of the severely underprivileged to better their lot. — Aung San Suu Kyi

Punch any of mine, and I'll break your arm off and beat you to death with it. — Ilona Andrews

Aren't your parents going to freak when they see you?"
That rough laugh again. "I'd probably freak if I saw them. — Brigid Kemmerer

He did not care if she was heartless, vicious and vulgar, stupid and grasping, he loved her. He would rather have misery with one than happiness with the other. — W. Somerset Maugham

Right," I fumed, my index finger poking him in the
chest. "So we're even then. My kiss didn't count because it
was an accident and yours didn't count because it was
strictly for medical purposes. Neither of them counted as
kisses."
"Would you have wanted them to?" Brent demanded
suddenly, bending his neck so he whispered it in my ear — Lani Woodland

I feel quite sad for the young musicians coming up because they may never get to pay their rent properly. It doesn't matter what the genre; nowadays, it's so much harder than it ever was. — Bryan Adams

Once DNA acquires the ability to persist forever, the carriers become disposable. Essentially, our bodies are designed to last long enough to reproduce. — S. Jay Olshansky