Montiglio Furniture Quotes & Sayings

I don't know if I ended up siding with the academics just because I happened to end up in graduate school, or if I ended up in graduate school because I already secretly sided with the academics. In any case, I stopped believing that "theory" had the power to ruin literature for anyone, or that it was possible to compromise something you loved by studying it. Was love really such a tenuous thing? Wasn't the point of love that it made you want to learn more, to immerse yourself, to become possessed? — Elif Batuman

I don't listen to music when I write. I need silence. — Louis Sachar

If nothing had any meaning, you would be right. But there is something that still has a meaning. — Albert Camus

(The Queen had real power, and a woman in power, feared as virile, is often accused of being a slut. — Susan Sontag

People are strange, when you are a stranger ... Faces come out in the rain, When you're strange ... — Thomas Jefferson

I get burned out on standup. But I like acting. I do like it. But sometimes you just feel like a monkey. You just feel like a complete tool. But I like it. I do like it. Stand-up is just more free. A lot more freedom because you just do what you want to do. — Zach Galifianakis

I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal. — Victor Cruz

Senator Kerry was fooled by Bashar al-Assad. — Elliott Abrams

Planned Parenthood, we're going to get rid of that. — Mitt Romney

The value of a work of art cannot ultimately turn on the more or less of its subservience to ideology; for painting can be grandly subservient to the half-truths of the moment, doggedly servile, and yet be no less intense. — T.J. Clark

A man who invented his life story day after day. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

In a speedy and aggressive culture, we need different principles to live by-bravery and insight. The first moment of bravery is building trust in the mind, which we do in meditation. When we know how to create peace in our own mind, we can transform the world. — Sakyong Mipham

All you're supposed to do is every once in a while give the boys a little tea and sympathy. — Robert Anderson