Stawiski Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes people come to my shows and think I'm a Christian artist, and they put their hands up in the air, like they do. But first of all, I'm a Jewish girl from the Valley, and I'm from Los Angeles. It's funny to be misinterpreted. — Jenny Lewis

I beg you, don't use the verb, 'discover', I hate it. What does it mean, that I didn't exist before? — Iman

what are inside books may not all that necessarily be different from what are outside books at all — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Nobody makes a movie about a woman in her mid-30s who wishes she could have met someone to have children with and still doesn't know where to find a date. — Uma Thurman

A scholar like myself who is not a Sinologist and yet ventures the proposition that Chinese languages should be rewritten in the Greek alphabet (or "Romanized", to use the current term) is treading on uncharted territory (for him) and does so at his peril. — Eric A. Havelock

In the end, we both lost. So it goes. — John Green

As I usually do when I want to get rid of someone whose conversation bores me, I pretended to agree. — Albert Camus

Speech may be silver but silence is golden. Traders with the golden touch do not talk about their success. — Linda Bradford Raschke

The Muslim world, with its history and cultures, and indeed its different interpretations of Islam, is still little known in the West ... The two worlds, Muslim and non-Muslim, Eastern and Western, must, as a matter of urgency, make a real effort to get to know one another, for I fear that what we have is not a clash of civilisations, but a clash of ignorance on both sides. — Aga Khan IV

To make a friend, forgiveness is required which burns up all things, leaving only beauty; but to destroy friendship is easy. — Hazrat Inayat Khan

It's enormously cheering to get a good review by someone who seems to understand your work. — Kenneth Koch

Life's always a big fucking compromise. You don't always get what you want, no matter how smart you are, how hard you work, how good you are. That's a myth. We're all hanging in the best way we can. — Amy Tan

The world we are in today is likely to end catastrophically, as many other human worlds have done before. — Paul Kingsnorth

Horror allowed me to quickly switch gears. — Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

The biggest surprise for me, without a doubt, was that the first black people who came to the United States weren't the 20 who arrived in Jamestown in 1619. All of us had been taught that. Well, guess what? The first African came to Florida in 1513. And the huge shock is we know his name, Juan Garrido, and that he wasn't a slave. He was free! This brother was a conquistador who came with Ponce de Leon. He was looking for the Fountain of Youth just like the white people were. — Henry Louis Gates