Nassani Quotes & Sayings

CLEAVE. To cleave to something is to cling to it with all your heart, he said, but to cleave something apart is to break it up. — Sarah Perry

I'm interested in reality, and I'm interested in survival. I'm interested in people who aren't the lucky ones, who maybe have a tougher time surviving, and telling their story. — Mary Ellen Mark

While out in TV Nation, under darkening skies, the resistance is just waiting to be organized. — Ani DiFranco

Social scientists could supply plenty of research to show that one member of the family, at least, is happier and more well adjusted when mum stays home and looks after the children. But that person is dada finding of limited use to backlash publicists. — Susan Faludi

Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music. — Alvin Ailey

I see Professionalism as a spreading disease of the present-day world, a sort of poly-oligarchy by which various groups (subway conductors, social workers, bricklayers) can bring things to a halt if their particular demands are not met. (Meanwhile, the irrelevance of each profession increases, in proportion to its increasing rigidity.) Such lucky groups demand more in each go-round - but meantime, the number who are permanently unemployed grows and grows. — Ted Nelson

I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat. — Will Rogers

So, in every case if you really love someone there is an element of submission to them because you want what's best for them, and at times they're going to tell you what's best for them. Even if you have second thoughts about it, you'll probably still do it because you love them. — Francis George

I hate that I've become one of those old men who visits a cemetery to be with his dead wife. When I was (much) younger I used to ask Kathy what the point would be. A pile of rotting meat and bones that used to be a person isn't a person anymore; it's just a pile of rotting meat and bones. The person is gone - off to heaven or hell or wherever or nowhere. You might as well visit a side of beef. When you get older you realize this is still the case. You just don't care. It's what you have. — John Scalzi

Pirate's unruly mop has been tenderly coaxed into a hairstyle as neat as biological circumstances will allow. — Fredrik Backman

A palm-leaf carriage should move slowly, or else it loses its dignity. — Sei Shonagon

I'm cool either way, I just need to know which instrument to pull out. — S.C. Stephens

When Jim Donell thought of something to say he said it as often and in as many ways as possible, perhaps because he had very few ideas and had to wring each one dry. — Shirley Jackson

They read the long afternoon through, while the cold November rain fell from the sky upon the quiet house. — Ray Bradbury