Kathy Acker Quotes
At a certain point I realized that the 'I' doesn't exist. So I said to myself: If the 'I' doesn't exist, I have to construct one, or maybe even more than one.
Kathy Acker
Quotes to Explore
Live TV has an amazing pace to it. You've got to be able to think quick, make changes last minute, and be funny and fast.
J. B. Smoove
I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie.
Oscar Isaac
I wasn't a ladies' man.
Kapil Dev
I am obsessed with the whole Victoriana thing, the whole Jack the Ripper London era, the grayness of it, the haunted feeling of it, all ancient and bloody.
Florence Welch
Florence and the Machine
My job is making money, helping other people make money. I am spending money, trying to make sure more people get rich, because you cannot spend a lot of money, right? So my job is spending money, helping others. This is a headache.
Jack Ma
It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
Randall Jarrell
Life is too short to be on a diet.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
I had an uncle who took me to the ring in Medellin when I was 15 years old. In school, we had someone who taught us how to bullfight.
Fernando Botero
In the case of Marilyn and John Kennedy, I think they did affect change.
Sally Kirkland
If, by chance, you were to meet me at the Casablanca airport or on a boat sailing from Tangiers, you would think me self-confident, but I am not. Even now, at my age, I am frightened when crossing borders because I am afraid of failing to understand strangers.
Fatema Mernissi
When something comes up, and it's interesting, and I have the time, I'll do it.
Flea
Jane's Addiction
My love for American music and American movies is from an early age. I was 10 or 11 when I heard Fats Domino and Little Richard and Buddy Holly. And the movies, my dad used to take my brother and I to the movies every Friday. It was incredible: we got to see just about every movie that came out for a period of years.
Ian McLagan
Small Faces
'Prophet!' said I, 'thing of evil! - prophet still, if bird or devil!'
Edgar Allan Poe
A general definition of civilization: a civilized society is exhibiting the five qualities of truth, beauty, adventure, art, peace.
Alfred North Whitehead
Rules necessary for definitions. Not to leave any terms at all obscure or ambiguous without definition; Not to employ in definitions any but terms perfectly known or already explained.
Blaise Pascal
Why does everybody agree that atmospheric oxygen... comes from life, but no one speaks about the other gases coming from life?
Lynn Margulis
It's absolutely, completely and totally reprehensible. And as you know from the Italian expression: The fish stinks from the head down. But I can tell you two fish that don't stink, and that's me and the President.
Anthony Scaramucci
Unica bellipraemia civilis, victis donare salutem,perdidimus.
Lucan
Being a scientist helps to support both my life as a Jesuit and my belief in God.
George Coyne
In a poll commissioned by Time and CNN, two-thirds of American parents said they think that their children are spoiled.
Elizabeth Kolbert
I practically lived in the woods when I was a kid, avoiding grown-ups and my dysfunctional family, pretending I was half-wolf, a feral child who napped in nests made out of ferns, ate wild blueberries, and wove sticks and feathers into her hair.
Jennifer McMahon
When 'Watchmen' was published in 1986, the vast majority of comics readers deemed it a watershed in comics history. The 12-part serial comic book was widely acclaimed as a genius subversion of the superhero genre, and it did much to popularize comics to adults.
Lydia Millet
There are two things every woman really wants: one, she wants to know that a man really loves her, and two, that he isn't going to stop.
Homer Hickam
At a certain point I realized that the 'I' doesn't exist. So I said to myself: If the 'I' doesn't exist, I have to construct one, or maybe even more than one.
Kathy Acker
