Syrus Truesdale Quotes & Sayings

I had an ASU student looking for it in my shop last week, and he defined the Bacchants for me as 'those drunk chicks who killed that one dude because he wouldn't have sex with them.' His professors must be so proud. I asked him if he knew what maenads were, and instead of correctly answering that it was just another name for Bacchants, he bizarrely thought I was referring to my own testicles - as in, "'Ere now, mate, don't swing that bat around me nads.'" The conversation deteriorated quickly after that. — Kevin Hearne

Though it's hard to concentrate on the idea of a future. She's too immersed in the present: — Margaret Atwood

I began to realize what everyone in the world knows and routinely forgets: that to be loved sexually is to be loved not for one's actual self but for one's ability to arouse desire in the other...Only the thoughts in one's mind or intuitions of the spirit can attract permanently... — Vivian Gornick

Pfft. Wine is the greatest invention. Next to the vibrator, of course. They're equally fabulous. — Emma Hart

In Japan, employees occasionally work themselves to death. It's called Karoshi. I don't want that to happen to anybody in my department. The trick is to take a break as soon as you see a bright light and hear dead relatives beckon. — Scott Adams

I'm tired of feeling like I'm fucking crazy.
I'm tired of driving till I see stars in my eyes. — Lana Del Rey

I think it's sad that movies and television have caused the theatre to fade as a popular art form. I hope to get young people into the theatre and expose them to Shakespeare. — Kelly McGillis

Sometimes it takes every weapon, every tactic, and every strength to get to what I call a good idea. — Sameh Elsayed

What is slang in one age sometimes goes into the vocabulary of the purist in the next. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich