25291 Quotes & Sayings

After a traumatic experience, the human system of self-preservation seems to go onto permanent alert, as if the danger might return at any moment. — Judith Lewis Herman

The Golden Apple for Margarita Teresa's seventeenth birthday (a special present from 'uncle'), to which Leopold himself contributed several genuinely beautiful arias. This opera must have been something to see, so scenically unwieldy that it took two days to put on, but with spectacles of flames, thunderclaps, flying dragons and shipwrecks of a dangerousness and scale that we are sadly sheltered from today. Cesti's — Simon Winder

Every film, every fight choreographer, wants to have a different flair, have a different fight technique. So any film I've done that involved weapons has always been fascinating because everyone is different. — Luke Evans

But now what? Is this a ticket to a new understanding of my life, or a bomb that's going to blow up everything?

Consider one more possibility: that you remain essentially the same person you were, neither new nor destroyed. — Ellen Ullman

Knowledge without devotion is like a stone in water. — Sylvia Fraser

I don't go to enough movies. — Andie MacDowell

I've pressed so
far away from
my desire that
if you asked
me what I
want I would,
accepting the harmonious
completion of the
drift, say annihilation,
probably. — A.R. Ammons

There are more living organisms in a tablespoon of highly organic soil than there are people on the planet. — Howard Warren Buffett

Well, "slithy" means "lithe and slimy." "Lithe" is the same as "active." You see it's like a portmanteau - there are two meanings packed up into one word. — Lewis Carroll

The real action is interior - all the growth that cannot be seen externally and to which we tend to have little access until we have experienced it ourselves. — Wendy Lustbader

I've already killed you and kissed you more times in my head than you deserve. — Soman Chainani