Lavagna East Quotes & Sayings

Nobody asks you to love the whole world, only to be honest, ehrlich. Don't have a loud mouth. The more you love people the more they'll mix you up. A child loves, a person respects. Respect is better than love. — Saul Bellow

Life, especially human life, was an act of defiance. It was never meant to be, and yet it existed in an incredible number of places across a near-infinite number of solar systems. — Matt Haig

My dad was always busy. You would pop round for a cup of tea, and within minutes you would see him walking past with a step-ladder. He was always fixing things. — Rachel Joyce

What others say about you is irrelevant. You define who you are. — Michele Vail

Nothing can ever overcome that one enormous sex (female) superiority that even the male child is born closer to his mother than to his father. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

I happened to observe a mother lifting her eight-year-old boy in her arms. As she did so she laughed and said, "You're getting so big you'll be lifting me soon." It was the simplest of statements. Yet I felt something transiently touching about the scene merely because millions upon millions of mothers reaching back into the dawn of history must have said the same thing to their children at some time and because other millions will say it in the remote future long — Leo Tolstoy

Cut your coat according to your cloth. — John Heywood

That's the imagination that happens in the theater. That imagination is translated in film by the film magicians and all the technology. — Ian McKellen

The operation of the Church is entirely set up for the sinner; which creates much misunderstanding among the smug.
(August 9, 1955) — Flannery O'Connor

The happiest people I know live lives that revolve around serving others, not themselves. — Tim Elmore

Ronda, you know why a guy in his twenties goes after sixteen-year-old girls? Because they're dumb enough to believe his bullshit. — Ronda Rousey

Sometimes the greatest blessings are a result of the darkest of hours. — Annie Carwyn

My films often have a very strong strain of irony, or even sarcasm, which is definitely related to homosexual camp. But it is by no means straightforward: quite often I am sincere when I appear to be sarcastic, and I am sarcastic when I appear to be sincere. I also try to contradict myself at least once a day, which is a camp must. — Bruce LaBruce

Thou madest man, he knows not why, he thinks he was not made to die. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Life is but a continual succession of opportunities for surviving. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez