Lucias Quotes & Sayings

If time is money, how much is a lifetime? — Ljupka Cvetanova

Decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way you live. — Gianni Versace

The local Cairo clergy offered to issue a fatwa recognizing Napoleon as the legitimate ruler of Egypt - provided the entire French army formally convert to Islam. Napoleon actually considered the offer, but when it became clear that the muftis' demand included mass adult circumcision and total abstinence from wine, the conversion plan was scrapped. — Tom Reiss

Perfect molecules of plastic sheet the seas. — Rae Armantrout

If we become skilled in giving ourselves empathy, we often experience in just a few seconds a natural release of energy which then enables us to be present with the other person. If this fails to happen, however, we have a couple of other choices. — Marshall B. Rosenberg

In retrospect, it's ridiculous that anyone saw me as a fashion icon, since all I was trying to do was to dumb down my middle-class look by messing with my hair. Throughout the eighties I was invariably half-sure and half-confident about whatever it was I wore ... Still, I've always believed - still do - that the radical is far more interesting when it looks benign and ordinary on the outside. — Kim Gordon

We must, as we grow older and wiser, be able to allow all the pain to seep out of our bones and our souls so that we can start again. — Mary Balogh

I gave my mother a matching set [of mugs] for Christmas, and she accepted them as graciously as possible, announcing that they would make the perfect pet bowls. The mugs were set on the kitchen floor and remained there until the cat chipped a tooth and went on a hunger strike. — David Sedaris

It seems that these phenomenal feats that race car drivers are performing are instinctive. They [require] very little mental workload. — Chris Gerdes

What if I should discover that the poorest of the beggars and the most impudent of offenders are all within me; and that I stand in need of the alms of my own kindness, that I, myself, am the enemy who must be loved
what then? — Carl Jung

Think about it. People in the sixteenth century - not to mention in Jesus's time - didn't look like this: perfect skin, perfect hairdos, spotless clothes. These are people who went to the bathroom in the street, for God's sake. There's no way they looked like this. But that's how we're going to remember them. Our alabaster past. When nothing else is left, art will become the truth of the time. Then people will get to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and wonder what happened - how we all became so imperfect. — Julia David Levithan

You'll get what's coming to you some day, Brekker."
"I will," said Kaz, "if there's any justice in the world. And we all know how likely that is. — Leigh Bardugo

The Pudding of Obligation. (Placed upon the Doily of Resentment.) — Theo Ellsworth