Pasica Quotes & Sayings

Everyone is coming from a place of fear and my feeling is stop being so afraid. If something doesn't work then that's fine at least then you know it doesn't work. Don't worry so much about it not working, you can always fix that. — Chelsea Handler

I have an idea that some men are born out of their due place. Accident has cast them amid certain surroundings, but they have always a nostalgia for a home they know not. They are strangers in their birthplace, and the leafy lanes they have known from childhood or the populous streets in which they have played, remain but a place of passage. They may spend their whole lives aliens among their kindred and remain aloof among the only scenes they have ever known. Perhaps it is this sense of strangeness that sends men far and wide in the search for something permanent, to which they may attach themselves. Perhaps some deep-rooted atavism urges the wanderer back to lands which his ancestors left in the dim beginnings of history. — W. Somerset Maugham

So that whether the pain of a wound in the groin (caeteris paribus) is greater than the pain of a wound in the knee - or
Whether the pain of a wound in the knee is not greater than the pain of a wound in the groin - are points which to this day remain unsettled. — Laurence Sterne

What I really wanted to know, though, was what it was like to be a geisha? Where do you sleep? What do you eat? How do you have your hair done? — Arthur Golden

Life is always surprising to me. When you think it's going to get dull, it never really does. — Conor Oberst

Children read books, not reviews," he wrote. "They don't give a hoot about the critics." And: "When a book is boring, they yawn openly, without any shame or fear of authority." Best of all - and to the relief of authors everywhere - children "don't expect their beloved writer to redeem humanity. — Steven D. Levitt

The important thing is, you have to have something important to say about the world. — Paul Strand

Every time that I've won a championship I've looked at my guys around me and looked at their work ethic and said 'You know what, I'm going to win it this year. I feel that way now. — Shaquille O'Neal

We're not stupid! We're just poor! And we have a right to insist on this distinction — Orhan Pamuk

That's the problem dealing with nonwerewolves," I said. "They lack that critical 'you are Alpha, you are right' gene. — Kelley Armstrong

No trait is more justified than revenge in the right time and place. — Meir Kahane

A policewoman, State, in a white paper hazmat suit, half unzipped, was standing in the middle of Porter, eating a pulled-pork sandwich. Flynne liked her haircut. Wondered if Tommy did. Then she wondered where you got a pulled-pork sandwich, this time of night. — William Gibson

Sap which mounts, and flowers which thrust,
Your childhood is a bower:
Let my fingers wander in the moss
Where glows the rosebud
Let me among the clean grasses
Drink the drops of dew
Which sprinkle the tender flower — Paul Verlaine

Democracy is threatened by the inertia of good people, by the selfishness of most people, and by the evil designs of a few people. — Stanley King

Grief is different. Grief has no distance. Grief comes in waves, paroxysms, sudden apprehensions that weaken the knees and blind the eyes and obliterate the dailiness of life. — Joan Didion