Seyda Gokyokus Quotes & Sayings

I was always creatively stubborn, adverse to editing by others, and wanted to use the kind of Ukrainian we spoke among ourselves rather than the more artificial prescribed literary Ukrainian. The problem was the greatest in prose, where editors would change my language because "it sounded better this way." My poetry they left alone probably out of deference to that hallowed genre. — Yuriy Tarnawsky

If Roman Godfrey was a riddle, Shelley was the epic fornication of mystery and enigma — Brian McGreevy

Love begins with an image; lust with a sensation. — Mason Cooley

And, just as he had wished, none of us had ever forgotten the maxim which, he remembered, he had bequeathed us. Indeed, the fine Latin maxim "Even if all others do - I do not!" belonged to every truly free life. — Joachim Fest

A few years back I was asked if I would go and meet a director and his various acolytes, and it occurred to me halfway through the meeting that what I was doing was auditioning. And I thought, 'Well, hang on buddy. I've done half a century of this.' — Peter O'Toole

I will never go back. For the simple reason that all the Russia I need, after all, is with me
always with me. Her literature, her language, my own Russian childhood. I will never return, I will never surrender. — Vladimir Nabokov

No more to say, and nothing to weep for — Allen Ginsberg

Are you using your degree as it was intended in your current job? Lots of people aren't. How is the education system keeping up with the velocity of change in what actually constitutes a real job? — Chris Brogan

Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force. — Josephus

I'm one of those who cut off seeing people after a certain time, when the weight is gone and they sound like the dementia is very advanced - I don't want to see that. I don't even go in to look at the body. That's not my last memory. — Bill Cosby

Life Insurance trusts I consider sacred. To hazard the property of the dead & to lose the scanty earnings of fathers & husbands, who have toiled & saved that they may leave something to their families deprived of their care & the support of their labour, is to my mind the worst of crimes. — Robert E.Lee

In the event that armed men of any sort enter the building, watch their feet closely. — Padgett Powell

To paint is always to start at the beginning again, yet being unable to avoid the familiar arguments about what you see yourself painting. — Philip Guston

HATE, even if it's making money. is an underground movie, that's how it was made. It's a film about police brutality in the largest sense, it's about the whole of society and not just about the hood. — Mathieu Kassovitz