Oflaherty Author Quotes

#1. In our world, that's the way you live your grown-up life: you must constantly rebuild your identity as an adult, the way it's been put together it is wobbly, ephemeral, and fragile, it cloaks despair and, when you're alone in front of the mirror, it tells you the lies you need to believe.

Muriel Barbery

#2. Large corporations have resources to influence media and overwhelm the political process, and do so accordingly.

Noam Chomsky

#3. He says that politics is a waste of time. Politics are? Politics is? Anyway, a waste of time. He says you should focus on your own sexual gratification.

David Burr Gerrard

#4. Isn't it time that these most ancient sorrows of ours
grew fruitful? Time that we tenderly loosed ourselves
from the loved one, and, unsteadily, survived:
the way the arrow, suddenly all vector, survives the string
to be more than itself. For abiding is nowhere.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#5. I am a big believer in letting your own personal freak flag fly.

Kirsten Vangsness

#6. If life is an illusion it's a pretty painful one.

Michel Houellebecq

#7. Life is fair; that's what's so unfair about it.

Kelly E. Lindner

#8. We will stand on principle or we will not stand at all.

Margaret Thatcher

#9. They went outside and stood where a sign used to say Taxi and now said Taxi/Tacsi for the benefit of Welsh people who had never seen a letter X before.

Kingsley Amis

#10. Some people without brains do an awful lot of talking, don't you think?

L. Frank Baum

#11. I have always employed humor, and I think it's absolutely crucial that we do because, among other things, humor is the only free emotion.

Gloria Steinem