Kassaba Quotes & Sayings

The first rule that a geisha is taught, at the age of nine, is to be charming to other women ... Every girl in the world should have geisha training. — Diana Vreeland

I'm not interested in characters who aren't broken. I'm not interested in happy people. It just doesn't draw me as a writer. — John Logan

I don't know why we women believe that sacrificing our desires makes us more attractive to men. What on earth are we thinking? That someone who goes without her wishes deserves to be loved more than she who follows her dreams? — Nina George

Health - what my friends are always drinking to before they fall down. — Phyllis Diller

Your salvation would be hollow if you don't help each other come home. Remember we are family, and families leave no one behind. — Chris Stewart

Good is that which elevates the mind, and evil, is that which degrades the mind. Social virtue and vice are temporal entities. These things have nothing to do with a person's relationship with the Supreme. — Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar

You don't do kind deeds expecting kindness in return. You don't do kind deeds because you deem the recipient worthy. You do kind deeds because it's who you are, and because you understand the powerful difference your gentle hand makes in this dreary world. — Richelle E. Goodrich

There are times when I love to play all kinds of complicated games in painting. But this is one case when I need to be fairly straightforward. I'll just try to paint the man, his intelligence, his amiability and his stature, maybe paint him fairly close to humor and try to get it just right. — Nelson Shanks

Sanity ... is the most profound moral option of our time. — Renata Adler

Puritans will never believe it, but life is full of disagreeable things that aren't even good for you. — Mignon McLaughlin

They each wore ill-fitting black suits and well-fitting black scowls. — Susan Dennard

What do you think about when you can't sleep? Sometimes I think about the ocean. I can see it lapping on the shore, waves rolling in one after the other, washing over the sand, never stopping. That's what usually puts me to sleep. — Jennifer R. Hubbard

What an absurd torture for the artist to know that an audience identifies him with a work that, within himself, he has moved beyond and that was merely a game played with something in which he does not believe. — Thomas Mann