Acnologia Quotes & Sayings

Everyone brings their own particular skill set to the job, and acting training can work for a lot of actors, and it can't. I've seen a lot of really good actors go into acting schools and then come out a little bit corrupted. — Xavier Samuel

Two things scare me. The first is getting hurt. But that's not nearly as scary as the second, which is losing. — Lance Armstrong

It was not his nature to believe that he should engage in any kind of meddling or become actively involved in politics. His vocation lay in the fulfillment of a poetic mission, and he wanted to carry that mission out to the last detail, conscientiously and freely. In this sense he cursed "the disturbance of war," not because he overvalued his cultural role and saw his special poetic work endangered but because to him, in the final analysis, war meant the victory of barbarism, with the result that any kind of cultural work -- and therefore his, too -- could become involved in a bloody power struggle and be destroyed. — Carola Giedion-Welcker

Do you see? The story I have to tell is so small, of the people who stayed when everyone else fled. — Brian Francis Slattery

He looked at the pain and he set himself apart from it. He saw it, examined it, identified it, corralled it. He isolated it. He challenged it. You against me? Dream on, pal. He built borders for it. Then walls. He built walls and forced the pain behind them and then he moved the walls inward, compressing the pain, crushing it, boxing it in, limiting it, beating it. — Lee Child

Superstitions are man's way of trying to control things he has no control over ... — Sarah Addison Allen

Oedipa stood in the living room, stared at by the greenish dead eye of the TV tube, spoke the name of God, tried to feel as drunk as possible. But this did not work. — Thomas Pynchon

Her skirt it swayed as the guitar played
her mouth it was watery and yet ... — Bob Dylan