Shahriarian Quotes & Sayings

Dissociative Identity Disorder...is initially a useful coping response to an environment which is very difficult to endure. The problem is that dissociative responses-such as switching, blanking out, or going into a trance-become automatic, and, once the original abusive environment has been left behind, are of little use in life and may be detrimental. — Elizabeth Howell

Culture in any place always goes top down, never bottom up. We need to step back and look at what kind of environment we have created for ourselves and those around us. It is tough to expect positive behavior in a negative environment. Where lawlessness becomes the law, honest citizens become cheats, crooks and thieves. — Shiv Khera

I actually came to New York because it was very tolerant. You know, it seems preposterous, ludicrous thing to say in an interview, but I came for the anonymity particularly. — Deborah Eisenberg

Yeah, well, if it wasn't your birthday and I wasn't so madly in love with you- his voice trailed off ... — Gretchen De La O

Whatever it is that stirs your soul, listen to that. Everything else is just noise. — Nicole Lyons

And I'm a pair of pants with a hole scorched through the ass? — Spider Robinson

I would rather have Sign of the Unicorn than all the boys in the valleys. — Jo Walton

An opportunity is a conjunction of circumstances by which one may improve his condition of life or his equipment for life. — William DeWitt Hyde

They would all be sorry ... particularly the duck. — Angie Sage

Your nerve endings
I know their plot
To attack
My never endings
Until we fall asleep
In each other's arms — Iain S. Thomas

Sorry, sorry, don't mind me, coming through, oh why hello there - " This to a particularly handsome Kai look-alike droid, which had no more reaction than any of the others. "Or not," she muttered, brushing past him. "Pardon me, a little space, please? — Marissa Meyer

I don't have to attend every argument I'm invited to. — W.C. Fields

When you're on the road, you have to be louder and you have to communicate. That's really the bottom line. — Vinny Testaverde

All my life, I've felt people are looking at me. So, when I became known, it was like, 'I'm not imagining this any more. People genuinely are staring at me. Oh, Christ, now they're coming over!' — Martin Freeman

Among some tossed-out books of my daughter's which I rescued ... was one too awful to live. I returned it to the trash, resisting the urge to say a few parting words. All day long the thought of its mingling with chicken bones and olive pits nagged at me. Half a dozen times I removed it and replaced it, like an executioner with scruples about capital punishment. Finally I put it on a high shelf where I wouldn't have to see it. Life imprisonment. — Lynne Sharon Schwartz