Iucundae Quotes & Sayings

You have to be ill if you want to get better. — Colin Firth

Addictions and mental disorders are like a disease, and they need treatment. — Syesha Mercado

I should not ever live with anyone, because I just don't have the patience for it. I'm very cranky around other people. — Whoopi Goldberg

I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro. This is a passionately racist country; it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future. — Susan Sontag

I walk over to Teren, then bend down so that my gaze meets his. I watch the rain pour down his face. When was the first time I saw this face? When I was chained to the stake, of course, and he had come over to bend down before me. How poised he had been, then, with his handsome, chiseled face and his mad, pulsing eyes. I smile, realizing that we have switched places now. — Marie Lu

A person who ... does not regard music as a marvelous creation of God, must be a clodhopper indeed and does not deserve to be called a human being; he should be permitted to hear nothing but the braying of asses and the grunting of hogs.
[Foreward to Georg Rhau's (1488-1548) Collection Symphoniae iucundae, 1538] — Martin Luther

Supposedly, summer vacation happens because that's when the kids are home from school, although having the kids home from school is no vacation. And supposedly the kids are home from school because of some vestigial throwback to our agricultural past. — P. J. O'Rourke

Laughing at fear is one of the best things you can do. When you are afraid, instead of just plunging into panic, laugh. The fear gets really uptight and leaves. — Frederick Lenz

You burn bright and you burn hard, like a fire in a dumpster,
and nobody is so worried
about you burning as they are worried about the fire spreading. — Kris Kidd

I was raised Catholic. I didn't appreciate the guilt and sin part of it. — John Densmore

The Buddhist understanding of mind is primarily derived from empirical observations grounded in the phenomenology of experience, which includes the contemplative techniques of meditation. — Dalai Lama XIV