Marginally Attached Quotes & Sayings

Men are by nature wanderers ... Every people has moved from somewhere, and had to learn the ways of the land from the people who were there before. — Marion Zimmer Bradley

Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to put the fire out. We're standing around with watering cans, when what we really need is the fire brigade. — Bono

I begin a book with imagery, more than I do with an idea or a character. Some kind of poetic image. — Rachel Kushner

When moonlight touches you, it's time for a woman to sit back and think, really think, about her life. — Cathy Lamb

I felt part of a group for the first time in my life. Not a family, just a group of people who liked being together, who sat as we did, leaning towards each other, leaving just the right amount of space in between, whose thoughts and words flowed easily and naturally, whose voices and accents were so different from each other and yet mingled in harmony as though in a song. — Indu Muralidharan

The World is perfect as it is, including my desire to change it — Ram Dass

I was lucky enough to realize my dream. When I was a little kid in Santa Barbara, sitting on the floor in my grandmother's house, dreaming of maybe one day working for Walt Disney, and to have that dream come true, I think that's pretty remarkable. — Floyd Norman

I have been thinking about the girl I met last night in the mirror: dark on the marble-ivory white: glossy black hair: deep suspiring eyes in which one's glances sink because they are nervous, curious, turned to sexual curiosity. — Lawrence Durrell

Yangi, a philosopher, art historian and poet, had evolved a theory of why some objects - pots, baskets, cloth made by unknown craftsmen - were so beautiful. In his view, they expressed unconscious beauty because they had been made in such numbers that the craftsman had been liberated from his ego. — Edmund De Waal

Life is like a book. It is your decision to narrate it or to live it — Gabriela Rodriguez

Leaving your country at a tender age really rearranges the way you perceive the world. So I feel marginally attached to many places rather than deeply attached to any one place. — G. Willow Wilson

How many crumpets, at a sittin', do you think 'ud kill me off at once?" says the patient. "I don't know," says the doctor. "Do you think half-a-crown's wurth 'ud do it?" says the patient. "I think it might," says the doctor. — Charles Dickens

I drink juice when I'm killin' cause it's f**king delicious! — Gerard Way