Stelia Quotes & Sayings

Whenever people idealize their caretakers, chances are pretty good that the opposite is true. Sometimes illusion is created by the parents, who insists in godlike fashion that they're perfect and that the child owes them obedience because they're responsible for his or her existence. Other times the illusion is created by the child as a survival strategy, disconnecting from reality in order to avoid the pain of growing up in a toxic enviroment. — Neil Strauss

I had a messy signature as a child, and my grandmother said this suggested I had no regard for other people. She was right. — Chris Ware

Try it on." "It's probably a little snug," I said, suddenly feeling conspicuous. "Marcie tends to buy down when it comes to sizing." He merely smiled. "It has a slit up the thigh." His smile deepened. — Becca Fitzpatrick

We headed to hell for heaven sakes, well Imma levitate ... make the devil wait. — Kanye West

I look over at him. He stares straight ahead.
"So," I say. "Golem, huh?"
"I prefer the term 'Mineral-American. — D.D. Barant

Different is better. I get more jobs being different. — Cintia Dicker

When I was a little kid I wanted to be an artist or a painter. But once I got into boxing, all I wanted was to box. — Emanuel Steward

There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most troubled mind. — Mary Wortley Montagu

Sometimes a girl needed breakfast that didn't involve flax or wheatgrass or organic free-range cruelty-free whole grains. — Chloe Neill

In general, American social life constitutes an evasion of talking to people. Most Americans don't, in any vital sense, get together; they only do things together. — Louis Kronenberger

ISIS is the new jihad - violent jihadist vanguard in the Middle East and globally. — Michele Flournoy

Orange: Uh Oh
Mario: Uh oh what?
Orange ... Uh-Oh spaghettio's
*LAUGH*
Mario: Not Funny — Annoying Orange

I do think culture is an argument, and that was part of the way I was brought up. People at a social occasion in Ireland will start shouting and arguing. When the Yeats family lived in Bedford Park, they had to go round to the neighbours to say, 'You might think we are fighting, but this is the way we talk to each other.' — Tom Paulin