Shiryaeva Quotes & Sayings

I wouldn't say that holidays are manufactured by corporations, but they're certainly exploited and mined by them. — Dan Savage

Words his soul danced to. — David Malouf

reading is a private activity. A book fits a reader like tailored clothing. — Faraaz Kazi

One of the things that pushed me over the edge was that people on the Left were calling me names. How many kicks in the teeth do you have to endure. — Cindy Sheehan

Pleasure in this respect is like photography. What we take, in the presence of the beloved object, is merely a negative film; we develop it later, when we are at home, and have once again found at our disposal that inner darkroom, the entrance to which is barred to us so long as we are with other people. — Marcel Proust

Until the '90s, major labels were looking for a certain look. This Sony guy told me I was 'too black, too fat, too short, and too old.' Told me to go and bleach my skin. Told me to step in the background and just stay back. I had the voice, but I didn't have the looks. — Sharon Jones

The number one resolution that people mention to me as something that's made them happier is - to my surprise - making the bed. — Gretchen Rubin

Money is like water in a leaky bucket: no sooner there, it begins to drip. — John Updike

Who the heck is Don Quick-oats? — Libba Bray

Churches in the outside world, my brother told me, were just the local stores that sold people lies made up in the distant factories of giant religions. — Chuck Palahniuk

He was poor, yet always appeared to be giving something away; a stranger, yet everyone was his friend; no longer young, but as happy-hearted as a boy; plain and peculiar, yet his face looked beautiful to many. — Louisa May Alcott

The thirst for knowledge is like a piece of ass you know you shouldn't chase; in the end, you chase it just the same. — George Pelecanos

it cannot be the purpose of Scripture to provide us with certified information about some entity outside its story about us, whether that third entity be God or certain classical religious experiences or the theological history of Israel and the primal church or whatever. Since we and Scripture and what Scripture talks about are not external to one another, since Scripture tells a story about God and us that we are even now living, there is no position from which such exchanges could be conducted - perhaps not even God has such an Archimedean point. This observation kills two historically instantiated errors with one stone. — Ellen F. Davis