Activates3 Quotes & Sayings

such a mixing of gaslight and daylight, that they seemed to have got on the wrong side of the pattern of the universe. — Charles Dickens

The previous Friday, Andy had come over, and they'd told him, and Andy had stood and hugged them both very solemnly, as if he was Jude's father and they had told him that they had just gotten engaged. — Hanya Yanagihara

For Aristotle, habits reigned supreme. The behaviors that occur unthinkingly are the evidence of our truest selves. — Charles Duhigg

I decided to make spaghetti for lunch again. Not that I was the least bit hungry. But I couldn't just go on sitting on the sofa, waiting for the phone to ring. I had to move my body, to begin working toward some goal. I put water in a pot, turned on the gas, and until it boiled I would make tomato sauce while listening to an FM broadcast. The radio was playing an unaccompanied violin sonata by Bach. The performance itself was excellent, but there was something annoying about it. I didn't know whether this was the fault of the violinist or of my own present state of mind, but I turned off the music and went on cooking in silence. I heated the olive oil, put garlic in the pan, and added minced onions. When these began to brown, I added the tomatoes that I had chopped and strained. It was good to be cutting things and frying things like this. It gave me a sense of accomplishment that I could feel in my hands. I liked the sounds and the smells. — Haruki Murakami

There was still gold and silver in the mountains,
And hunger was a more immediate sorrow — W. H. Auden

He had no use for sensual gratification, unless that gratification consisted of pure, incorporeal odors. — Patrick Suskind

You know when I was 20 and 30, they were insecurities. Now they're just a new normal. I'm 60 years old, so my expectations of who I am and how I look and how I show up in the world had to shift. Not because I couldn't help it, or not because I did anything wrong, but because I had to get into the natural flow of my being as a woman. — Iyanla Vanzant

What more could anyone want than to try to change and be changed by someone? — Catherine Lacey

The Nirvana unplugged album was something we'd always knew we were capable of doing, but it was just a matter of doing it right. — Dave Grohl

What's the worst that could happen?"
"Don't say that!" Bess and Corwin yelled at the same time.
"You two are so superstitious. — Georgette St. Clair

Anybody that walks can sing.. — Michael Stipe