23 Amy Poehler Quotes & Sayings

I think that what I'm attracted to is people who are wild. But the self-destructive side comes out of the wild side. The wildness is very different from me. That's why I think I like it. — Gus Van Sant

All social relations exist and grow in the human mind. That one despot can rule over a million other men rests absolutely on their state of mind. They believe that he does; let them change their minds, and he does not. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

You add to the suffering in the world when you take offense, just as much as you do when you give offense. — Ken Keyes Jr.

Thus, neither having the clue to the other's secret, they were respectively puzzled at what each revealed, and awaited new knowledge of each other's character and moods without attempting to pry into each other's history. — Thomas Hardy

My cat knows the meaning of life, but has no interest in sharing the secret. — Ashleigh Brilliant

Do you remember what Darwin says about music? He claims that the power of producing and appreciating it existed among the human race long before the power of speech was arrived at. Perhaps that is why we are so subtly influenced by it. There are vague memories in our souls of those misty centuries when the world was in its childhood.'
That's a rather broad idea,' I remarked.
One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature,' he answered. — Arthur Conan Doyle

The opposite of what is noised about concerning men and things is often the truth.
[Fr., Le contraire des bruits qui courent des affaires ou des personnes est souvent la verite.] — Jean De La Bruyere

All worthwhile endeavors are 90% work and 10% love, and only the love should show. — Chuck Jones

My wife and I had been trying a while to have a baby. We tried a bunch of things - so we had a surrogate. — Jimmy Fallon

The Obama Administration continues to talk about the 'policies of the past' and insist that a return to those policies will lead to disaster. — Marsha Blackburn

At times, the greatest courage of all is to live. — David Clement-Davies

Keep everything in context, and try to have each line doing more than one thing - not just giving exposition but also revealing character and history, etc. — Richard Bausch

Performance has to be mainstream art. This is what I'm fighting for. — Marina Abramovic