Acrecent Quotes & Sayings

I saw Hollywood born and I've seen it die. — Mary Pickford

I'm a firm believer in slowing down to improve my state of mind when I'm training, and yoga and meditation have been paramount to my success in this way. — Amanda Beard

As Narrative (Novel, Passion), love is a story which is accomplished, in the sacred sense of the word: it is a program which must be completed. For me, on the contrary, this story has already taken place; for what is event is exclusively the delight of which I have been the object and whose aftereffects I repeat (and fail to achieve). Enamoration is a drama, if we restore to this word the archaic meaning Nietzsche gives it: "Ancient drama envisioned great declamatory scenes, which excluded action (action took place before or behind the stage)." Amorous seduction (a pure hypnotic moment) takes place before discourse and behind the proscenium of consciousness: the amorous "event" is of a hieratic order: it is my own local legend, my little sacred history that I declaim to myself, and this declamation of a fait accompli (frozen, embalmed, removed from any praxis) is the lover's discourse. — Roland Barthes

(The French psychoanalyst Lacan suggested that the Christian injunction 'love thy neighbour as thyself' must be ironic because people hate themselves.) — Adam Phillips

Politics and Religion are obsolete. The time has come for Science and Spirituality. — Jawaharlal Nehru

When something bad is written about me, I find it hurtful. So I choose not to look at it. — Patsy Kensit

I suspect that hunger was my mother. — Plautus

I know it sounds lame, but I have to dig the way you think, and I have to feel you get me. My whole fucking life, I pretended I could relate to chicks so I could get into their pants. Then once I got in, all I wanted was out again. — Jerry Stahl

I'm now a member of a pretty small club. — Felix Baumgartner

Eventually, if you're lucky in life, you find someone with the same chemical imbalance you have. — Robert Breault

Charity, patience and tenderness are very beautiful gifts. If you have them, you want to share them with others. — Pope Francis

I want to be Moses." "You can't." "Why not?" "I have the stick." "Oh. — Christopher Moore

My last fight wasn't the way I wanted it to go so there is a hole there; don't count me out. — Gina Carano

I think the best part of being Catholic, strange as it might sound, is that I know it's right. It's true. — Lino Rulli

Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction. — Leon Trotsky