Acclimations Letter Quotes & Sayings

Ruby: How nice for you all. How is the wonderfully helpful Ursula?
Rosie: Wonderfully helpful. Yesterday she told me I had problems discussing
my feelings.
Ruby: And?
Rosie: And I told her that made me feel angry and that she could go fuck
herself.
Ruby: Well expressed.
Rosie: Thank you. I don't see where there was a problem, I successfully
explained how I felt and she clearly understood what I meant. No
problems ... — Cecelia Ahern

They [Americans] want to believe that Good and Evil can be defined in precise categories, that Good is already, or will be easily achieved ... if this optimism appears too superficial, they will try to create a kind of anti-God: the U.S.S.R. That is Evil, and it only needs to be annihilated to re-establish the reign of Good. — Simone De Beauvoir

They do quote me, that means that my words and my sentences get under their skins although they do no know it. — Gertrude Stein

The cycle hit the beach and spun out. Emma went into a rolling crouch as she flew free of it, keeping her elbows in, pushing the air hard out of her lungs. She turned her head as she hit the sand, slapping her palms down to roll herself forward, absorbing the impact of the fall through her arms and shoulders, her knees folding up into her chest. The stars wheeled crazily overhead as she spun, sucking in her breath as her body slowed its rolling. She came to a stop on her back, her hair and clothes full of sand and her ears full of the sound of the wildly crashing ocean ... — Cassandra Clare

At the time of the Revolution, dogs howled day and night all over Russia. — Andrei Platonov

Most photographers have some kind of verbal patter going on when they shoot: "Great. Turn to me. Big smile. Less shark eyes. Have fun with it. Not like that." Some photographers are compulsively effusive. "Beautiful. Amazing. Gorgeous! Ugh, so gorgeous!" they yell at shutter speed. If you are anything less than insane, you will realize this is not sincere. It's hard to take because it's more positive feedback than you've received in your entire life thrown at you in fifteen seconds. It would be like going jogging while someone rode next to you in a slow-moving car, yelling, "Yes! You are Carl Lewis! You're breaking a world record right now. Amazing! You are fast. You're going very fast, yes! — Tina Fey

Personally I think there is no doubt that sub-atomic energy is available all around us, and that one day man will release and control its almost infinite power. We cannot prevent him from doing so and can only hope that he will not use it exclusively in blowing up his next door neighbour. (1936) — Francis William Aston

Take your worst nightmares, and put my face to them. — Tommy Lynn Sells

Most creatures run when they sense danger. People grab a six-pack and a folding chair. — Nenia Campbell

Your thoughts are like the artist's brush. They create a personal picture of the reality you live in. — Sydney Banks

How do you tell someone she has to learn to love herself and her own body before she can be loved or love? — Azar Nafisi

The Nile, forever new and old, Among the living and the dead, Its mighty, mystic stream has rolled. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow