Tahirih Quotes & Sayings

His knowledge of ancient Greece was based entirely on a poem Edgar Allan Poe, a few homosexual encounters with restaurateurs (he ate free at almost every soda fountain in the city), and a plaster reproduction of the Akropolis which, for some reason, he had coated with red nail polish. — Leonard Cohen

I've taken my boys to the house I grew up in. Taken them to the site of Ebbets Field, where the Dodgers used to play. They go to all the Dodger games, and they play Little League ball. I have infused them with New York spirit. — Larry King

If you don't vote, you're going to get a spanking. — Madonna Ciccone

This was what was keeping me awake at night,' Walter said. 'This fragmentation. Because it's the same problem everywhere. It's like the internet, or cable TV- there's never any center, there's no communal agreement, there's just a trillion little bits of distracting noise. We can never sit down and have any kind of sustained conversation, it's all just cheap trash and shitty development. All the real things, the authentic things, the honest things are dying off. Intellectually and culturally, we just bounce around like random billiard balls, reacting to the latest random stimuli. — Jonathan Franzen

I felt the sharp sting of emptiness and solitude that you feel so acutely and with such internal sorrow and wonder whenever music is performed well. — Pat Conroy

Shifting my weight and readjusting my stance, I'm eventually able to do like he wants, floating up and down in the palms of his hands.
"That's it-" he said.
I ask if this is how he and Frieda do it.
Laughing, he nods his head no.
"Why NOT?"
"Because-- unlike YOU- she's not very FOND of getting corn-holed. — Giorge Leedy

Friendship is not always the sequel of obligation ... — Samuel Johnson

They gave 12 monkeys a typewriter for a week, and after a week, they only used it as a bathroom. — Robin Ince

Sometimes I really do feel that Peter Griffin is right about the clouds plotting against us. — Rickey Russell

When you stand on the stage you must have a sense that you are addressing the whole world, and that what you say is so important the whole world must listen. — Stella Adler

Whenever we read a book we love, we change it, to some extent. We read into it our own interpretations, and the meanings which the words have taken on in our time. If a book is so rigid that it cannot lend itself to these fluctuations, it is useful only while it seems strictly true, and afterwards it is completely out of date. — John Erskine

I almost rely on other people to say, "Hey, you ever hear of this band?" And I'll say, "Oh, I've never heard of that!" And I listened to them and thought, "What the hell?" — John Petrucci