Wasabisys Quotes & Sayings

I invoke the other's protection, the other's return: let the other appear, take me away, like a mother who comes looking for her child, from this worldly brilliance, from this social infatuation, let the other restore to me "the religious intimacy, the gravity" of the lover's world. (X once told me that love had protected him against worldliness: coteries, ambitions, advancements, interferences, alliances, secessions, roles, powers: love had made him into a social catastrophe, to his delight.) — Roland Barthes

Tonight, after we're done with the bank, we're going to finish this. Somewhere it's just the two of us. But if I keep kissing you right now, I'm not going to have enough blodd left in my brain to keep you safe at the bank. — Melissa Cutler

The important question is, what will your wear for a wedding dress, Alexia? You look horrible in white. — Gail Carriger

You cannot be effective if those who work for you are not. So building their effectiveness ought to be a priority. — Richard N. Haass

First, the defenders of the Confederate cause were, almost without exception, Democrats. Coates cites many malefactors from Senator Jefferson Davis to Senator James Henry Hammond to Georgia Governor Joseph Brown. Yet while identifying these men as southerners and Confederates, Coates omits to identify them as Democrats. — Dinesh D'Souza

It only took Romeo one look at Juliet and his fate was sealed. Maybe I'm just like my namesake, and maybe you're just like yours. — Tillie Cole

I do try to compress a lot of information into what I do. It's funny. — Robert Sikoryak

I prefer to write about what we refer to as 'the supernatural' versus everyday life. Humans, by themselves, bore me. — Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

Georgia is in an enviable position today, but we can't rest on our laurels. — Roy Barnes

In 1983, Michael W. Doyle commented on the common observation that democracies almost never wage war on one another. Understanding the reasons for this phenomenon may be crucial to our hopes for preventing devastating conflict in the next generation. Which attributes of democracy foster this essential trait of mutual nonaggression? — David Brin

I always think, when I'm in motion, writing seems like the most natural thing. — Pam Houston

Don't see the point in reading ghost-written autobiographies, even though some of these published lives may fascinate me. The 'ghost' is always present, manipulating an interview into first-person singular text, and it feels like I'm reading a lie. — Gary Kemp

What do you consider the most humane? - To spare someone shame. What is the seal of liberation? - To no longer be ashamed in front of oneself. — Friedrich Nietzsche

There's the basic unwritten rule of witchcraft, which is Don't do what you will, do what I say. — Terry Pratchett