Xiaobo Lu Quotes & Sayings

Masturbation is not the happiest form of sexuality, but the most advisable for him who wants to be alone and think. I detect the aroma of this pleasant vice in most philosophers, and a happily married logicians is almost a contradiction in terms. So many sages have regarded Woman as temptress because fornication often leads to marriage, which usually leads to children, which always leads to a respectable job and pretending to believe the idiocies your neighbors believe. The hypocrisy of the sages has been to conceal their timid onanism and call it celibacy. — Robert Anton Wilson

When novels deal in abstractions, they generally go off the rails. — Philipp Meyer

I thought, If I'm an ancestor and grandmother when I'm twenty-five, I should go peacefully to the real time when I'm an ancestor and a grandmother. — Agnes Varda

Don't be afraid to write bad songs and then start over and re-evaluate. Songs are like plants, in that you grow them. Some grow really fast, and others need pruning and care ... And, finally, a song needs to move you. If it doesn't move you, it will never move anybody else. — Corey Harris

If our circumstances find us in God, we shall find God in all our circumstances. — D.L. Moody

The fascinating and awesome handiwork of God will anchor your power of appreciation on the shores of infinity. — Aihebholo-oria Okonoboh

I wonder how long it will take for me to feel as adult inside as I look outside. — Maggie Stiefvater

You've got to set high standards for yourself. — Marcus Giles

Usually, people tend to see someone on the surface and think that that's who that person is. — Mamoru Hosoda

The more I protested about this ambiguity, the more Joanna pointed out to me that it was both a terrible and wonderful part of life: terrible because you can't count on anything for sure - like certain good health and no possibility of cancer; wonderful because no human being knows when another is going to die - no doctor can absolutely predict the outcome of a disease. The only thing that is certain is change. Joanna calls all of this 'delicious ambiguity.' 'Couldn't there be comfort and freedom in no one knowing the outcome of anything and all things being possible?' she asked. Was I convinced? Not completely. I still wanted to believe in magic thinking. But I was intrigued. — Gilda Radner

I like to go on YouTube to see the underground sounds, what the kids are listening to, and kind of gauge my music around that. — Missy Elliot

I think women are amazing and women's friendships are like a sisterhood and we should see more of it in television and film. — Laurie Holden

I hope you know that television and computers are no more your friends, and no more increasers of your brainpower, than slot machines. All they want is for you to sit still and buy all kinds of junk, and play the stock market as though it were a game of blackjack. — Kurt Vonnegut