Lucques West Quotes & Sayings

He is where he is supposed to be. And yet the place he has found is also of his own choosing. That is a piece of luck not to be despised. — Cormac McCarthy

I had paid for my folly and, as a reward, was invited to take part in the nest builder's performance piece. The script was great.

'When I bleat here, do you want me to just bleat or to really let go and "bleat, bleat"?' I asked. 'I feel like "bleat, bleating," but if Mother/Destroyer is going to be crawling through the birth canal of concertina wire, I don't want to steal focus, you know what I mean? — David Sedaris

Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end. — George A. Moore

As teenagers, Marcus had been the muscle and Jake the brains. Marcus had beat up the kids who'd made fun of skinny Jake; Jake had convinced teachers not to punish him.
Since then, Marcus had grown a brain (kind of) and Jake had developed muscles. But habits die hard. — Gena Showalter

Sexual morality - as society in its extreme form, the American, defines it - is contemptible. I advocate an incomparably freer sexual life. — Sigmund Freud

There's nothing to see through. Feel this." His lips skim down my neck. "This is me." He presses his body to mine. "All of me." His voice is low and seductive. — Kim Karr

The goods of this world are most dear to me, but much dearer are peace of mind and my own honor. — Claudio Monteverdi

O cowardly amd tyrannous race of monks, persecutors of the bard, and the gleemen, haters of life and joy! O race that does not draw the sword and tell the truth! O race that melts the bones of the people with cowardice and with deceit! ("The Crucifixion Of The Outcast") — W.B.Yeats

You can call anyone you want a traitor as long as you're the one holding the pen. — Nihad Sirees

Thank God, He does not measure grace out in teaspoons. — Amy Carmichael

Start with the idea that you can't repeal the laws of economics. Even if they are inconvenient. — Lawrence Summers

My kids are not known, and I think that is very important. So far they have lived a normal life, and will continue to do so. I feel they should have the possibility to live a free life without the burden of fame I have created. — Michael Schumacher

Tsukuru decided not to pursue it further. He could think about it all he wanted and never find an answer. He placed this doubt inside a drawer in his mind labeled "Pending" and postponed any further consideration. He had many such drawers inside him, with numerous doubts and questions tucked away. — Haruki Murakami

It gratified all the vicious vanity that was in him; — Mark Twain

There were others of course - The Velvet Undergound, the Doors- who took risks in the 1960s, when no one knew where any of it was going. Before them were the Beats and before the Beats the avant-garde artists, the futurists, Fluxus, and before that, the blues, outsider music, a mourning for what's expected but will never happen, so why not dance and play and forget for a few moments that we're all alone anyway? — Kim Gordon