Layne Thomas Staley Quotes
My bed isn't made, I'm tired, I haven't slept well for two weeks. I haven't been laid in a month. I don't have a girlfriend. I have a warrant for my arrest.
Quotes to Explore
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I stayed in the astronaut program until 1993. People ask me why I left. I thought I had a lot of things to contribute that would be difficult to do if I stayed. I thought I could have a stronger voice as an advocate for space exploration. So I ended up starting my own technology consulting company.
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To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
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Elves live in harmony with the world, and I try to do that.
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Chuck Cooper is a friend, and I adore him. He can do so many things.
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Pure art is a noble pursuit. Applied art is a business. That's one reason design firms have been so eager of late to add consulting and manufacturing to their core aesthetic competencies.
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I'm a voracious reader, and I like to explore all sorts of writing without prejudice and without paying any attention to labels, conventions or silly critical fads.
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No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.
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I am originally a surd who was born in Delhi in 1982, just two years before the Sikh riots, so all my childhood pictures are in baby frocks with ponytails, as my parents wanted to hide the fact that I was a Sikh boy, given the riots. My dad worked for a travel agency, and we soon moved to Saudi Arabia.
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The Touchables, whether they are vegetarians or flesh-eaters, are united in their objection to eat cow's flesh. As against them stand the Untouchables, who eat cow's flesh without compunction and as a matter of course and habit.
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I'm very fortunate to have gotten past the cancer problem.
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The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality.
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I'm addicted to making music, but I don't want to do it forever. I just want a farm. Farms make you happy.
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I want to keep talking about my people and my country in my own language.
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I don't know anyone, from any class, who's had a perfectly easy life. I've met people born into wealthy families who feel like they didn't have much emotional support, and people who come from working-class families who had loads of love but no money.
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As anyone knows who has ever had to set up a military encampment or build a village from the ground up, occupations pose staggering logistical problems.
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I always say my music is like dark blue or black, like a punch to your gut that feels really good.
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I bought a fur coat with my first pay cheque and it lived better than I did for years.
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Not all my work features black actors. I mean, it's funny: someone was reading back to me all the languages that have appeared in my films, whether they were shorts or features. They span Arabic, French, Mandarin, Cantonese - all kinds of languages. I think it's really cool.
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A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember.
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We have several projects in the pipeline, but one of the rules we set for ourselves is we don't want to solicit or announce any projects that aren't ready for publication. I'm personally really tired of reading about titles that never come out.
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My bed isn't made, I'm tired, I haven't slept well for two weeks. I haven't been laid in a month. I don't have a girlfriend. I have a warrant for my arrest.
