Butoh Russ Quotes

#1. In Hindu societies, especially overprotected patriarchal families like mine, daughters are not at all desirable. They are trouble. And a mother who, as mine did, has three daughters, no sons, is supposed to go and hang herself, kill herself, because it is such an unlucky kind of motherhood to have.

Bharati Mukherjee

#2. I built up a knowledge of 1960s and '70s British films because my dad used to work nights, and I'd sit up with my mum and watch films - 'How I Won the War' and the films of Richard Lester, Karel Reisz and John Schlesinger.

Nick Moran

#3. ...curiosity had the same impact on him as caffeine... (Commissario Soneri)

Valerio Varesi

#4. I believe the ability to think is blessed. If you can think about a situation, you can deal with it. The big struggle is to keep your head clear enough to think.

Richard Pryor

#5. Our own interests are still an exquisite means for dazzling our eyes agreeably.

Blaise Pascal

#6. I don't give a damn how you feel about me, I sip lean pure codeine and I don't give a damn what you say about me.

Gucci Mane

#7. The way she says kiss, it sounds different. Like she invented the word specifically for the song.

J.C. Lillis

#8. Ideally, the umpire should combine the integrity of a Supreme Court judge, the physical agility of an acrobat, the endurance of Job and the imperturbability of Buddha.

Time-Life Books

#9. While I remain troubled by the Corps' inability to fully justify the Model they used for their commercial traffic predictions, America clearly has an aging lock and dam infrastructure on the Mississippi.

Ron Kind

#10. I'm a head-shot photographer. I have people come to my apartment, and I take their head shots.

Colman Domingo

#11. I had now arrived at my seventeenth year, and had attained my full height, a fraction over six feet. I was well endowed with youthful energy, and was of an extremely sanguine temperament.

Henry Bessemer

#12. I heard that chivalry was dead, but I think it's just got a bad flue.

Meg Ryan

#13. I see myself as a recovering journalist.

Annalena McAfee

#14. I mean, I find things that happened in real life to be the funniest - things that you observe instead of crazy abstract things, you know.

Jonah Hill