Liantis Quotes & Sayings

Women always think that I'm Chandler, so if I don't joke around for half an hour, they think that something's wrong. Then I explain that I don't have comedy writers scripting everything I'm saying at this particular dinner. — Matthew Perry

Love's key unlocks joy's door. — Matshona Dhliwayo

The "laughter through tears of sorrow" that Pushkin noted elsewhere in his work is precisely laughter. The images it produces are too deeply ambiguous to bear any social message. — Nikolai Gogol

Humor can bring people under the tent. And a good joke can deflect some of the intensity surrounding a serious subject. — Ted Danson

My fashion secret is "SIMPLE IS BETTER ... LESS IS MORE." — Tweet

34. Not equal are the good and the bad response. You shall resort to the one which is better. Thus, the one who used to be your enemy, may become your best friend. — The Monotheist Group

I think poetry was always where I went to deal with my deepest feelings. — Jonathan Galassi

We wanted a periodical that would help people live richer, fuller, freer, more self-directed lives. — Graham Fellows

I talk about race a lot. It's been my work ever since I came out of acting school. But it's true that in a way talking about race is a taboo. Because so many of our debates about race have to do not with race but with what we are willing to see, what we will not see and what we don't want to see. — Anna Deavere Smith

Maybe you need to take a look at who I am, instead of who you wish I were. — Amy Tintera

And the fact that the Muslim world, over the course of a decade, rallied and defeated a superpower is an extraordinary symbol in the Islamic world today. You have to remember they were soundly thrashed over the last century by the West, and in the last 50years, three times by the Indians, three times by the Israelis. And so a victory against the Soviets is huge. — Michael Scheuer

Don't tell me the sky is the limit - there's footprints on the Moon. - Overheard at a flee market. — Joseph Shellim

She looks out at the woods through the screen of limbs. Watching in the same way he is, for the same terrible things he is, with the same expectation, with equally haunted, hollow eyes. She's still gripping the butcher's cleaver tightly and her knuckles show through the skin. He puts a hand gently on hers. I think we're good, he says to her. It's gone. We're good.

She doesn't say anything. She just stares awhile. Clutching that glinting meat hatchet in a tight, mudded fist. The whites of her teeth and eyes in the dark. There is no good, she tells him. Not for us. There's only being ready for the next bad thing coming. — Jonathan R. Miller

Any ministry to black people which is not designed to effect their empowerment is designed to perpetuate their enslavement. — Albert B. Cleage Jr.

This was my life.
And you know what?
Life was pretty damn good.
Even despite the fact that I had no clue where I was. — Nicole Williams