Onica Quotes & Sayings

What generally passes for 'thought' among the majority of mankind is the time one takes out to rearrange one's prejudices. — Clare Boothe Luce

You got de keys to de kingdom. — Zora Neale Hurston

As summarized professionally by Lewin in Science69 (and popularly by Adler and Carey in Newsweek70), — Gary E. Parker

Since when has love ever looked for reasons, or evidence? Why would love bow to the reality of things, when it creates a reality of its own, so much more vivid, wherein everything resonates to the key of the heart? — Paul Murray

But life isn't something that should be edited. Life shouldn't be cut. The only way you'll ever discover what it truly means to be alive and human is by sharing the full experience of what it means to be human and each blemish and freckle that comes with it. — Iain Thomas

Adults are starved for a kind word. When you understand the power of honest praise (as opposed to bullshitting, flattery, and sucking up), you realize that withholding it borders on immoral. If you see something that impresses you, a decent respect to humanity insists you voice your praise. — Scott Adams

Where the heart is really attached, I know very well how little one can be pleased with the attention of any body else. — Jane Austen

If you look like you belong, people assume you do. — Cristin Terrill

I have always intended to live forever; but not until now, to live now. — Galway Kinnell

It wasn't until the show was almost over that I figured out what it was: the crack above my David Onica that I had asked the doorman to tell the superintendent to fix. On my way out this morning, I stopped at the front desk, about to complain to the doorman, when I was confronted with a NEW doorman, my age but balding and homely and FAT. Three glazed jelly doughnuts AND two steaming cups of extra-dark HOT CHOCOLATE lay on the desk in front of him beside a copy of the Post opened to the comics and it struck me that I was infinitely better-looking, more successful and richer than this poor bastard would ever be and so with a passing rush of sympathy I smiled and nodded a curt though not impolite good morning without lodging a complaint. — Bret Easton Ellis