Kusema Uongo Quotes & Sayings

Who are YOU? said the Caterpillar. — Lewis Carroll

One classic American landscape haunts all of American literature. It is a picture of Eden, perceived at the instant of history when corruption has just begun to set it. The serpent has shown his scaly head in the undergrowth. The apple gleams on the tree. The old drama of the Fall is ready to start all over again. — Jonathan Raban

He wanted to make her laugh. He wanted to sit and listen to her talk about books until his ears fell off. But all these were things he could not want, because they were things he could not have, and wanting what you could not have led to misery and madness. — Cassandra Clare

A certain kind of rich man afflicted with the symptoms of moral dandyism sooner or later comes to the conclusion that it isn't enough merely to make money. He feels obliged to hold views, to espouse causes and elect Presidents, to explain to a trembling world how and why the world went wrong. The spectacle is nearly always comic. — Lewis H. Lapham

Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life. Many might have failed beneath the bitterness of their trial had they not found a friend. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The man who knows governments most completely is he who troubles himself least about a definition which shall give their essence. Enjoying an intimate acquaintance with all their particularities in turn, he would naturally regard an abstract conception in which these were unified as a thing more misleading than enlightening. — William James

Now he knew it was worse. Fuck. Deck wasn't done. Lined up two hundred women, told me to choose the one for you, I'd choose the one back there. Settin' myself up for what I'm gonna see again, gonna hold onto the knowledge that a year ago, my boy had one serious, fuckin' bitch sleepin' in his bed and he was sleepin' in his guest room. — Kristen Ashley

The wide screen reminds me of a roll of toilet paper. — Yasujiro Ozu

I'm never going to retire and say, 'This is it. This is my last show.' I will not go on tour - I promised my wife and son no more than two weeks on the road. — David Cassidy

The earth opens impartially her bosom to receive the beggar and the prince. — Horace

But are they all horrid, are you sure they are all horrid? [Referring to Gothic novels, fashionable in England at the beginning of the 19th century, but frowned upon in polite society.] — Jane Austen

Love has a powerful way of removing the mask we all insist on wearing. — Jessy

To share a story is in part to take ownership of it, especially because you are often able to comment on a story that you are sharing on social media. — Annalee Newitz