Laiden Quotes & Sayings

Last names ... they were like word parasites. They attached to people in strange ways, moved across cultural and political lines, traveled the world and reattached to others, certainly at whim and seemingly at random.
Why didn't anybody else see how creepy last names were? They labeled a person as coming from a particular class or geographical area or linked their identity to another person, as if someone's identity had no merit on its own unless it had latched on to another. — Thea Harrison

Marriage is a mistake every man should make. — George Jessel

And what you need ironically. Will turn out what you want to be. If you just let it. — Lauryn Hill

Competition, which is the instinct of selfishness, is another word for dissipation of energy, while combination is the secret of efficient production. — Edward Bellamy

Later: I'm seeing everything in pieces and fractions, like a series of photographs shuffled randomly together. — Lauren Oliver

She tended to be impatient with that sort of intellectual who, for all his brilliance, has never been able to arrive at the simple conclusion that to be reasonably happy you have to be reasonably good. — Carolyn Kizer

The most prevalent poetic representation of contemporary experience is the mimesis of disorientation by non sequitor. — Tony Hoagland

You keep right on building that fence, Faye. See what good it does you. — Elle Lothlorien

He sips his drink and it leaves his handlebar mustache dripping like a cattle dog come outta a river. — Erin Bowman

We [people] may enjoy this fleeting beauty [of life] for such a brief instance. And then we are compost. G - , the creator-destroyer, certainly has a strange sense of humor! — Sam Keen