Jayram Thakur Quotes & Sayings

Everything is clear to me - outline, details, future, emotion. Not like the world, where everything is muddy and messed, and nothing ever works out the way you mean it to - no matter how skilful or how honourable you are, no matter how vile your enemy. When — Kelly Gardiner

Nothing fruitful ever comes when plants are forced to flower in the wrong season. — Bette Lord

Too many poets act like a middle-aged mother trying to get her kids to eat too much cooked meat, and potatoes with drippings (tears). I don't give a damn whether they eat or not. Forced feeding leads to excessive thinness (effete). Nobody should experience anything they don't need to, if they don't need poetry bully for them. I like the movies too. And after all, only Whitman and Crane and Williams, of the American poets, are better than the movies. — Frank O'Hara

There was a fine line between fear that would excite and fear that would paralyze the senses. — Cherise Sinclair

Who you looking at — Darren Shan

The ego represents what we call reason and sanity, in contrast to the id which contains the passions. — Sigmund Freud

The sidewalks were jammed and the crowds drifted slowly past bars from which disco music blared and where men sat on barstools looking out the windows. The air smelled of beer and sweat and amyl nitrate. At bus benches and on strips of grass in front of buildings, men sat, stripped of their shirts, sunbathing and watching the flow of pedestrians through mirrored sunglasses. Approaching the bar where I was meeting Hugh, I smelled marijuana, turned my head and saw a couple of kids sharing a joint as they manned a voter registration table for one of the gay political clubs. I stepped into the bar expecting to find more of the carnival but it was nearly empty. The solitary bartender wiped the counter pensively. — Michael Nava

I remember everything about you. Even the stuff I wish I could forget ... — A Meredith Walters

I am a producer who NEVER discusses her budgets, EVER, ever ever. — Lauren Shuler Donner

[There are] judges who stretch the law ... to suit reactionary attitudes. — Michael Foot

The Pledge of Allegiance says 'liberty and justice for all'. Which part of 'all' don't you understand? — Pat Schroeder

Thou art coming to a King, large petitions with thee bring, for His grace and power are such none can ever ask too much. — John Newton

Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century. Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people's minds and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead. — Arundhati Roy

Going to college helped me, because I had four years in the conservatory program, which is close as you can get to a professional environment. It's like all day. — Ryan Sypek

The war waged against terror since September 11 puts a strain on democracy itself, because it is mostly waged in secret, using means that are at the edge of both law and morality. Yet democracies have shown themselves capable of keeping the secret exercise of power under control. — Michael Ignatieff