Samarasinha Quotes & Sayings

I said I loved her. That was when all the problems started — Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. — F Scott Fitzgerald

I'm a secret nonmember of the establishment. This isn't a grubby kind of revolution I'm talking about. This isn't Che Guevara stuff. I don't want to live on berries in the woods - I don't think anybody does. — Louis O. Kelso

Do more than:Stop self-destructing. Save each other. Not have a nervous breakdown or six by twenty five. Decolonize our minds, our hair, our hearts. Transform into the phoenixes we were all meant to be. — Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

You can talk about Holocaust denial, but it's really marginal for the most part. What is compelling about the Armenian genocide, is how it has been forgotten. — Atom Egoyan

When I meet a couple, I'm always interested to know if they have been together for a long time, or how loyal they are, because I know that will impact on how much I'm prepared to trust them. — Richard E. Grant

We're sistas. We treat each other like sistas. That's the blessin'. That's the problem. We come together cause we're both bein' fucked over by the same people. We get close. And then we fall in love with each other cause us third world diva gals are beautiful and blessed like none other. — Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Our pride is tied up in being right. We tend to favor data that confirm our beliefs, so we don't see alternatives. Too often, leaders practice defense routines that become self-reinforcing. — Nina Easton

Democracy can't work. Mathematicians, peasants, and animals, that's all there is
so democracy, a theory based on the assumption that mathematicians and peasants are equal, can never work. Wisdom is not additive; its maximum is that of the wisest man in a given group. — Robert A. Heinlein

I'm not one of those people who had a burning passion for 'Peter Pan' all my life. Although I can't remember a time when I didn't know the story, I didn't carry around with me an ambition to one day write the sequel. — Geraldine McCaughrean

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us. — Henry David Thoreau

And as in uffish thought he stood, The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame, Came whiffling through the tulgey wood, And burbled as it came! One, two! One, two! And through and through The vorpal blade went snicker-snack! He left it dead, and with its head He went galumphing back. — Lewis Carroll

He must be able to mystify his officers and men by false reports and appearances, and thus keep them in total ignorance. — Sun Tzu

And somewhere in that sweaty brown hot box of brown gay, I found myself. — Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

I just want to be with you. Walk next to you, Ivy, wherever you're headed. That's all. — Amy Engel

I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams. — Madonna

'The Graduate' should have won best picture over 'In the Heat of the Night.' — Andy Kindler

The thing I always wanted to say is that surviving abuse sucks. But it's also a choose-your-own-adventure story. — Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

I realize how much I have wanted this and not gotten it [good love], realize how much it is branded in my heart that, to be happy, alone, and childless is a fucking gift that most women get brainwashed into relinquishing. — Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Stick a needle in your arm, you bite the dust, you buy the farm. — Alice Cooper

I felt before I thought — Henri Rousseau

I find, that, in general, alliances based on friendship are the only things that last. Not alliances based on words and letters. — Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha