Diamanda Galas Quotes

#1. I don't want to know about the constitution of the rapist
I want to kill him! I don't care if he is white or black, if he is middle-class or poor, if his mother hung him from the clothesline by his balls: I only want to kill him! Any woman who has been raped will agree.

Diamanda Galas

#2. I wake up and I see the face of the devil and I ask him, "What time is it?"
And he says,
How much time do you want?

Diamanda Galas

#3. Movie magic is movie magic and acting magic is acting magic.

Ben Kingsley

#4. The old philosophy was that parents, especially mothers, caused their kids to become schizophrenic. Now we see that when a kid is this crazy, he'll make the family begin to seem crazy.

John R. Talbott

#5. The immense profundity of thought in vulgar locutions, like holes dug by generations of ants.

Charles Baudelaire

#6. Defence must be more adaptable, able to respond quickly to the changes in the security environment and the character of conflict.

Bob Ainsworth

#7. I think God is a callous bitch not making me a lesbian. I'm deeply disappointed by my sexual interest in men.

Diamanda Galas

#8. If you think I wear the cloak of filth, then let me tell you baby, I wear it real good.

Diamanda Galas

#9. Maybe it wasn't a good idea to rank the people in your life. That's not how the heart worked. The heart didn't make lists.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#10. I am the hole on the flute that Gods breath flows through.

Eckhart Tolle

#11. No matter what terror or loveliness the earth could produce - winds, seas - a person could produce the same, lived with the same, lived with all that mixed-up nature swirling inside, every bit.

Lorrie Moore

#12. It seems stupid when people limit themselves to one kind of music. It tells me they're not using their ears.

Diamanda Galas

#13. the intolerance of reproductive rights for women puts the rights of potential humans above the rights of actual living, breathing humans.

Cooper S. Beckett

#14. It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old.

Leigh Hunt

#15. The ultimate way to reduce stress is find the cause and melt it away with love.

Debasish Mridha

#16. The only other things I got from the abstract expressionists is the absolute belief that this canvas is the complete total area of struggle, this is the arena, this is where the fight is taking place, the battle. Everybody believes that, but you have to really believe that and work that way.

Aaron Siskind

#17. Life is so groovy when your record is hot.

Ray Davies

#18. I don't know how to defend myself: surprised innocence cannot imagine being under suspicion.

Pierre Corneille

#19. There ought to be a better way than government to run the world.

Ashleigh Brilliant