Wainaina Ireri Quotes & Sayings

I've always had problems with my brain, so a lot of the songs are about issues I have with paranoia or freak-outs. 'When My Head Explodes' is about being on stage, having people look at you and expecting you to perform, then literally your head explodes. — Ty Segall

A religion that costs nothing is worth nothing. A cheap Christianity, without a cross, will prove in the end a useless Christianity, without a crown. — J.C. Ryle

TV news is not very instructive. — Gore Vidal

Belgium is a country invented by the British to annoy the French. — Charles De Gaulle

They [students] had two common, strongly held expectations: the college should exhibit the behavior it expected from students and hold true to its espoused values. — Gregory S. Prince Jr.

Mandelstam was, one is tempted to say, a modern Orpheus: sent to hell, he never returned, while his widow dodged across one-sixth of the earth's surface, clutching the saucepan with his songs rolled up inside, memorizing them by night in the event they were found by Furies with a search warrant. These are our metamorphoses, our myths. — Joseph Brodsky

The great poet draws his creations only from out of his own reality. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I feel like I'm a professional. I've been a professional for a number of years. I'm a businesswoman and a tax lawyer and a professional and so that's how I treat other people. — Michele Bachmann

If carrots got you drunk, rabbits would be messed-up. — Mitch Hedberg

You begin by engaging the left hemisphere of the brain with the overall shape, the basic structure of the painting, and then eventually you engage with the colour, with the mood of the painting and then you are entering the activities of the right hemisphere - and it is in the right hemisphere that ideas of space are born, the realization that you are seeing space. — Guido Molinari

Me neither," Shane put in. "Homie don't play that."
"I wonder, sometimes, if your generation speaks English at all," Amelie said. — Rachel Caine

As one door closes another opens some do say, but at times, when panic is born, all doors are blown asunder, hope driven all but fully under, and in the back of young, impressionable minds. — Rosca Marx

Why should the immediate opportunity set be the only one considered, when tomorrow's may well be considerably more fertile than today's? — Seth Klarman

It must never be forgotten that the purpose of Alcoholics Anonymous is to sober up alcoholics. There is no religious or spiritual requirement for membership. No demands are made on anyone. An experience is offered which members may accept or reject. That is up to them. — Bill W.

I know myself too well to believe in pure virtue. — Albert Camus