Acocella Quotes & Sayings

Slush is frozen over. People say that winter lasts forever, but it's because they obsess over the thermometer. North in the mountains, the maple syrup is trickling. Brave geese punch through the thin ice left on the lake. Underground, pale seeds roll over in their sleep. Starting to get restless. Starting to dream green. — Laurie Halse Anderson

...until we make peace with our homes, we can never quite make peace with ourselves. — Alison Wearing

When I started to paint I felt transported into a kind of paradise ... In everyday life I was usually bored and vexed ... Starting to paint I felt gloriously free ... — Henri Matisse

Those who lament the dissolution of the American family-kids with no way to get to Girl Scouts, aging parents put into nursing homes-should remember what it was that kept the American family together: women's blood. — Joan Acocella

As you deal with more and more complex systems, it becomes harder and harder to find deep and interesting properties. — Noam Chomsky

Thierry Henry, he was definitely the best. He was just too quick. Oh God, what a player he was. I was so relieved when he went to Barcelona. He used to have everything. You couldn't even kick him, he was big and strong, oh, Jesus, he was a nightmare — Jamie Carragher

You don't know a woman until you have had a letter from her. — Ada Leverson

If I hear a song that I love - how is the groove and how is the beat and what is the feeling of this? - I can make it my own. — Gustav Ejstes

Dance is the most intimate art, the most unbrainy art, because it is done wholly with the body, which is so limited in its ability to speak anything but the truth. — Joan Acocella

Ben Vereen is going to be on the show with me, too. — Liza Minnelli

He's got plans with the girlfriend." Gage rolled his eyes. "You can say her name, man. She's not Voldemort, you know. — Elle Kennedy

Art, like Nebraska, is a journey into thin air, a walk into whiteness, where you lose everything but yourself. — Joan Acocella

The virtue of a piece is the writer's thoughts. — Joan Acocella

Sometimes, you have to just act, act in the right earnest way, without bothering about the results. — Girdhar Joshi

What allows genius to flower is not neurosis but its opposite... ordinary Sunday-school virtues such as tenacity and above all the ability to survive disappointment. — Joan Acocella

Something good is just about to happen. — Rhonda Byrne

I believe that all people allow the act of victimization to take lead in their lives without realizing or trying to stop it. You hear of another person's problems, automatically feel the need to salve their pain, so you make it your own. After a while, it no longer matters if the problem was yours to begin with. You absorb their pain into your body, your blood stream, your soul. It becomes yours. — Leigh Hershkovich

Alcohol may also persuade us that we have found the truth about life, a comforting experience rarely available in the sober hour. — Joan Acocella

Such a caring for death, an awakening that keeps vigil over death, a conscience that looks death in the face, is another name for freedom. — Jacques Derrida