Nieroda Quotes & Sayings

I have two books that were published quite some time ago. I start to read about three sentences. I have to close it. I am so self-conscious. Who did I think I was? — Patty Duke

Is dying hard, Daddy?
No, I think it's pretty easy, Nick. It all depends. — Ernest Hemingway,

I was a big reader. I could spend whole days absorbed in a book, whole weekends in the library or the park, completely oblivious to my surroundings. 'Escapism', I suppose they'd call it, but I never really liked that term much myself. I mean, who is it exactly who gets to decide which parts of your life are real and which parts are only allowed to count as an escape from that reality? I preferred to think that good books were my real life and all the other stuff - school, chores, all the rest of it - was just an interruption. — Jess Vallance

When I go to bed at night, I've got so much grease on my body I wear snow chains to hold up my gown. — Phyllis Diller

We listen to the inexhaustible chant of the sea within us, as it rises and falls in our heads, like the approach and retreat of the strange desire we have for heaven, for love, and all that we cannot touch with our hands. — Jean-Michel Maulpoix

I like the fact that people come together who have shared values, but I don't believe that a man died 2,000 years ago and was crucified on a cross to save me from my original sin. — Steve Coogan

Anger destroys your soul. — Marvin Gaye

It did what all ads are supposed to do: create an anxiety relievable by purchase. — David Foster Wallace

Objects exist and if one pays more attention to them than to people, it is precisely because they exist more than the people. Dead objects are still alive. Living people are often already dead. — Jean-Luc Godard

Human ties are the greatest distorters of reality because they tend to conceal man's worst selfish instincts. — Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Fetishes ... they're the pet you feed or the beast that eats you. We'll feed your beast until it's tamed. — Tiffany Reisz

Throughout her life, Highsmith looked for women whom she could worship. Sex was far from the most important factor in any relationship; rather, it was this near-divine quality for which she yearned. — Andrew Wilson