Quotes About Galas

#1. I don't have a life where it's galas, posh affairs. It's me, my dog and a sofa. And a TV.

Phillip Lim

#2. I am aware that most 27-year-old writers do not co-host galas in their hometowns.

Derek Blasberg

#3. I've been in companies where they have galas. U.S. companies aren't government-funded, so they invite wealthier people to come to these events. It's a very glamorous art form. They send you off to talk to bankers, and they make you feel objectified in a way.

Sarah Hay

#4. All ballet galas are unbearable, but they're unbearable in different ways.

Robert Gottlieb

#5. I don't like ostentatious galas and stuff like that, but if you get to the Oscars, you'd better get used to it and you'd better enjoy it.

Philippe Falardeau

#6. The world is in serious condition largely due to our conditioning to be serious. Seriously.

Swami Beyondananda

#7. A writer's goal is to weave the ordinary into fine silk and the truly extraordinary into diaphanous clarity ...

C.J. Heck

#8. One drop of that ocean is Hope, and the rest is fear.

Rumi

#9. 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

#10. I let myself pretend for now that my life was normal; that I loved Leif and my heart wasn't damaged beyond repair because I was in love with someone I couldn't find and feared I would never again

Abbi Glines

#11. Defending oneself by hiding behind the rules was a clever trick, like using a mouse to stampede the enemy's elephants and causing them to trample him to death.

Alan Bradley

#12. You will never get what you want if you believe that you are not worthy of having it. God doesn't create us to be defeated.

Shannon L. Alder

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

Diamanda Galas

#14. I am pleased now that I have lived in a gay as well as a religious ghetto, though it hasn't been very comfortable. Taken together, their limitations cancel each other out and I have seen the world more kindly and more honestly.

Lionel Blue

#15. After an hour of gliding though the crowd and two glasses of tepid wine later, Penelope had reached the spiritual state of being merrily tipsy. It was that perfect state when everything starts looking wonderful and every tragedy turns into a comedy.

Anya Wylde

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

Diamanda Galas

#17. Aim not to win or succeed, but for excellence in the moment.

Dan Millman

#18. The world is such a big place; staying in one town your whole life, is like never leaving your house.

Chris Geiger

#19. 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

#20. Get drunk by drinking the magical beauty and tranquil tonic of nature; get lost in the wilderness.

Debasish Mridha

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

Diamanda Galas

#22. There should be a law passed to keep people like me from being alone with their thoughts for too long."

'Mona Rogers in Person

Philip-Dimitri Galas