Surj N Gergo Quotes & Sayings

Defiance means you got somebody with power over you. — Pearl Cleage

Political utopias are a form of nostalgia for an imagined past projected onto the future as a wish. — Michael Ignatieff

I've never been one to stay still. I was born a nomad, and I still am a nomad and always will be. — Waris Dirie

Rather than act like the lord of the manor,
I would rather behave like a guest.
Rather than advance an inch,
I would rather retreat a foot. — Lao-Tzu

I'm so drunk," I said through the bathroom door, though it wasn't true. I'd declared it to him in my anxiety to take pressure and responsibility off of myself for what I wanted to do next. I had already decided I at least wanted to kiss him, be held. Yet my desire surprised me. I felt the weight of shame not only on rape now, but on sex too. I was confused by it. I felt unready to hold myself responsible for the decision if I slept with him. — Aspen Matis

'Cyberspace' is a metaphorical idea which is supposed to be the space where your consciousness is located when you're using computer technology on the Internet, for example, and I'm not entirely sure it's such a useful term, but I think that's what most people mean by it. — Neil Postman

My dad's a surfer-psychologist, and my mother's an actress-fitness instructor, and we all practice Buddhism. — Vinessa Shaw

I've just finished reading Reality Hunger and I'm lit up by it-astonished, intoxicated, ecstatic, overwhelmed ... It really is an urgent book: a piece of art-making itself, a sublime, exciting, outrageous, visionary volume. — Jonathan Lethem

Understanding is a creative act in a dimension we do not see. — Elizabeth Goudge

Be calm, patient, and frank. Tell her that women in magazines aren't the best role models, that people who judge everyone on their looks probably have terrible self-esteem issues. Tell her that what matters is not how thin someone is, but what her character is. And tell her what is great about her, what you like about her, what you hope for her. — Meg Meeker

You never forget. It must be somewhere inside you. Even if the brain has forgotten, perhaps the teeth remember. Or the fingers. — Neil Gaiman

There is ever a slight suspicion of the burlesque about earnest good men. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

People who wear their religion on their sleeves talk a lot about going to Sunday school, reading the Bible, and doing good works. And I suppose there's no harm in that. But if I'd gone to the trouble to pull all this together ... and people never paid any attention to it, never bothered to try to find out how the world worked, then I think I'd get annoyed. — Jack McDevitt

James, at the beginning of his friendship with Edith Wharton. — Hanya Yanagihara

In the state of Alabama we have a significant number of illegal aliens that are leaving our state as occurred in Arizona after they got tough on illegal aliens. — Mo Brooks