Omotoso Story Quotes & Sayings

When I was twelve I was obsessed. Everything was sex. Latin was sex. The dictionary fell open at 'meretrix', a harlot. You could feel the mystery coming off the word like musk. 'Meretrix'! This was none of your mensa-a-table, this was a flash from a forbidden planet, and it was everywhere. History was sex, French was sex, art was sex, the Bible, poetry, penfriends, games, music, everything was sex except biology which was obviously sex but not really sex, not the one which was secret and ecstatic and wicked and a sacrament and all the things it was supposed to be but couldn't be at one and the same time - I got that in the boiler room and it turned out to be biology after all. — Tom Stoppard

When the manipulations of childhood are a little larceny, they may grow and change with the child into qualities useful and admired in the grown-up world. When they are the futile struggle for love and concern and protection, they may become the warped and ruthless machinations of adults who seek in the advantages of power what they could never win as children. — Leontine R. Young

To me, punk is about being an individual and going against the grain and standing up and saying 'This is who I am'. — Joey Ramone

Damn, time flies when you're fucking high. — Erik Williams

We will be remembered not for the power of our weapons but for the power of our compassion, our dedication to human welfare. — Hubert H. Humphrey

You can't wait around for something to become good, it either is, or isn't. — Toni Aleo

Buttoning the length of my shirt with Left Neglect and one right hand takes the same kind of singular, intricate, held-breath concentration that I imagine someone trying to dismantle a bomb would need to have. — Lisa Genova