Outyourbackdoor Quotes & Sayings

I was a buffoon and an idiot until the age of forty — Madonna Ciccone

The best thing to do when you're in this world, don't you agree, is to get out of it. Crazy or not, scared or not. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

You used words, discarding them meaninglessly, without thinking, whereas I thought they held meaning. I found what you will never see: that my love resides on the other side of words. - Broken Places — Rachel Thompson

Opera was an enormous part of my childhood. My parents were both opera buffs, and they met in the box seat of an opera performance. And I also was a boy soprano, so before puberty hit, I was onstage playing a wide variety of orphans and urchins in all sorts of operas, and the sheer melodrama of their stories was just always appealing to me. — Daniel Handler

Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them. — Chuck Palahniuk

Being a Berlin cop in 1942 was a little like putting down mousetraps in a cage full of tigers. — Philip Kerr

I clearly had one drink too many and I am deeply embarrassed about the things I said, — Reese Witherspoon

And, dying, he declined to die. — Jack London

[I'm concerned with] aesthetics and this idea of how the passage between life and death goes. I can visually present that by borrowing this Buddhist statue. — Hiroshi Sugimoto

Hence one should follow the advice of the hermit to whom a youth complained that he rather often experienced imaginations concerned with lusts and other sins and to whom the old man replied: "You cannot prevent the birds from flying over your head. But let them only fly and do not let them build nests in the hair of your head. Let them be thoughts and remain such; but do not let them become conclusions."32 — Martin Luther

I have to say that it was a very strange experience when, later in life, I represented Byron Scott and was negotiating with West - whose picture I used to have over my bed! That took some getting used to. — Leigh Steinberg

That's why, to experience that, you know for a fact that a human being is capable of so much more, because to go to that place and to step outside yourself and observe yourself do these things, while the rest of the world is moving in slow motion, is really incredible. — Marcus Allen

But it's amazing how many people think that gay men should slink off into the shadows when it comes to having friendships with children. — Armistead Maupin

When you have decided that a thing ought to be done and are doing it, never avoid bein seen doing it, though many shall form an unfavorable opinion about it. For if it is not right to do it, avoid doing the thing; but if it is right, why are you afraid of those who shall find fault wrongly? — Epictetus

To be the master of tomorrow's dreams, you must first be the servant of today's planning. — Vincent Lowry