Thanoukos Quotes & Sayings

Cts of appropriation are part of the process by which we make ourselves. Appropriating - taking something for one's own use - need not be synonymous with exploitation. This is especially true of cultural appropriation. The "use" one makes of what is appropriated is the crucial factor. — Bell Hooks

Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation. The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation. — Abraham Verghese

I would never feel confident enough to express my views and opinions as the right ones because I just don't think that's possible. There are so many sides to everything that nobody is right or wrong. — PJ Harvey

...sometimes the truth is cruel. — Stephen King

All attempts by the State to bias the conclusions of its citizens on disputed subjects, are evil. — John Stuart Mill

Life is too precious to spend it with important people. — Harry Partch

The harder one tries to get over that person, the deeper they seem to fall for them. — Preeti Shenoy

The Little Boy and the Old Man
Said the little boy, "Sometimes I drop my spoon."
Said the old man, "I do that too."
The little boy whispered, "I wet my pants."
I do that too," laughed the little old man.
Said the little boy, "I often cry."
The old man nodded, "So do I."
But worst of all," said the boy, "it seems
Grown-ups don't pay attention to me."
And he felt the warmth of a wrinkled old hand.
I know what you mean," said the little old man. — Shel Silverstein

Be a vegetarian. That was the best advice I ever took. It means I'm not involved in killing, that's the main thing. — Martin Shaw

That's how vile i am! I live Ireland, I breathe Ireland, and Christ how I loathe it, I wish I were a bloody Scot, that's how bloody awful it is being Irish! — Iris Murdoch