Laila Rouass Quotes

I don't like my birthday. I don't like things that are directed towards me. It took me a long time to get over people asking me to write my name in the book.

I found that being with happy positive people annoys me.

I didn't particularly like being objectified.

If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.

You don't want to do something that's all terrifying.

I don't want to be in everyone's face. I'm a big music fan, and I get really pissed off when it gets like that... and I don't want people to get like that with me.

I hate birthdays. I hate birthday parties. I hate them. I don't know what it is, anybody's only got to come wafting near me with a piece of cake with a candle on and I break out in hives.

I hate when people call me 'The Boz'.

I am far more distress-avoidant than I am joy-seeking.

I hate birthdays. I thought that I only hated my own birthday, and then I realized that I hate my children's birthdays too.

I have friends who hide in their bedroom for three days every time they have another birthday. That's what brings the wrinkles! I didn't care when I turned 30 or 40 or 50.

Interventions are really emotionally exhausting and I would never ever want to have one. In the same way, I would never want to have a surprise birthday party. That would be horrible.

I get mad when people give me presents. I don't want them, I don't need them.

…it was the nature of man, when told that he should be shunned and despised and condemned as the cause of all the vice and misery and crime in the land, to retreat within himself, close all the avenues to his head and his heart.

There are places you go, and they say, 'Take off your dark glasses so we can see your beautiful blue eyes.' And you just want to... you just want to... I dunno, um... thump them.

I don't like drama. Drama actually makes me nauseous.

Take it from me: If you hear the past speaking to you, feel it tugging up your back and runing its fingers up your spine, the best thing to do-the only thing-is run.

You cannot shame or belittle people into changing their behaviors.

There is not a single soul that jealousy looks good on. Nobody! It looks ugly on everybody and it makes us act ugly - it makes us act out of character.

It's easier to write about those you hate — just as it's easier to criticize a bad play or a bad book.

The greater the suffering depicted, the more terrible the events, the more intense our pleasure.

Familiarity doesn't breed contempt, it is contempt.

They were frightfully angry. Quite apart from the stones no spider has ever liked being called Attercop, and Tomnoddy of course is insulting to anybody.

I get so mad about ex-boyfriends, but if a boy hurts me, I don't write a song about it. They don't deserve it!

A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.