Lieven Van Quotes & Sayings

The civility of the world has reached that pitch that their more moral genius is becoming indispensable, and the quality of this race is to be honored for itself. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Around 6 p.m.: the apartment is warm, clean, well-lit, pleasant. I make it that way, energetically, devotedly (enjoying it bitterly): henceforth and forever I am my own mother. — Roland Barthes

I guess the quality that makes one write poetry keeps one from selling it. — Louise Closser Hale

I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything. — Victoria Justice

No masters or kings when the ritual begins [making love]
There is no sweeter innocence than our gentle sin
In the madness and soil of that sad earthly scene
Only then I am human
Only then I am clean — Hozier

Don't look to a husband or a child or a friend or your family to make you happy. It is not within their capacity to do so. — Barbara Barrington Jones

I've had every known chemical
cocaine, booze
and tobacco is the hardest one in the world for me to quit. You watch old flicks? It's suggestion by looking at something: You see a cigarette, and it makes you want to smoke! — Ozzy Osbourne