Karabekian Quotes & Sayings

Rabo Karabekian: I'm in the middle of a sentence.
Circe Berman: Who isn't?. — Kurt Vonnegut

The jargon of authenticity ... is a trademark of societalized chosenness, ... sub-language as superior language. — Theodor Adorno

I can only think how good life on earth can be, at times. What grief two people can give to one another! And what pleasure! — Hanif Kureishi

Poor manners on my part. What is your name?"
"Ria."
"Ria, is that short for Rian?"
"Yes, it is," she smiled.
"Rian, would you please cross your legs?"
The request was made with such an earnest tone that not even a titter escaped the class. Looking puzzled, Rian crossed her legs.
"Now that the gates of hell are closed," Hemme said in his normal rougher tones. "We can begin. — Patrick Rothfuss

Sitting there, I remembered two things about going to mass with my father: he never took Communion because of his and my mother's divorce, and he always tapped his heart three times, with solemn insistence, after the recitation of the Apostles' Creed. I asked him about his ritual once. His eyes filled with such alarm that I instantly knew his heart tapping had something to do with a loss or devastation: his parents' early death, his divorce, his wounding in Vietnam. There was no reason for me to invade that space. Maybe that was the best simple explanation for religion: it filled our spaces. — Tom Bissell

If a man achieves or suffers change in premises which are deeply embedded in his mind, he will surely find that the results of that change will ramify throughout his whole universe. — Gregory Bateson

Love is the divine light that melts away all blockages. Love heals our beings — Banani Ray

And he had to have freedom-not even that, just to read and sleep in peace, without a uniform-sooner still. — Alfred Jarry

The more you learn, the more you realize how much there is to learn. — Trip Adler

I had no respect whatsoever for the creative works of either the painter or the novelist. I thought Karabekian with his meaningless pictures had entered into a conspiracy with millionaires to make poor people feel stupid. I thought Beatrice Keedsler had joined hands with other old-fashioned storytellers to make people believe that life had leading characters, minor characters, significant details, insignificant details, that it had lessons to be learned, tests to be passed, and a beginning, a middle, and an end. — Kurt Vonnegut

Kar.a.bek.i.an (n.); (from Rabo Karabekian, U.S. 20th Cent. painter). Fiasco in which a person causes total destruction of own work and reputation through stupidity, carelessness or both. — Kurt Vonnegut

The finest command of language is often shown by saying nothing. — Roger Babson

So I think that if we want to have a Congress, if we want to have government that looks like America, if we want to have government that is truly a representative Democracy, then we need to clearly address how we get our campaign laws out of the way of Democracy. — Carol Moseley Braun

Oh happy Meat. Oh happy Soul. Oh happy Rabo Karabekian. — Kurt Vonnegut

I had made her so unhappy that she had developed a sense of humor. [-Rabo Karabekian] — Kurt Vonnegut

It's not unusual for people to like Florida in the winter. I'm not a great tourist. I like coming down to work. — Israel Horovitz

Time is short and full, like an outgrown Frock - . — Emily Dickinson

The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God. — G.K. Chesterton