Aimee Mann Portlandia Quotes & Sayings

The characters I have the least in common with are the ones I have the greatest success with. The further a role is from my own experience, the more I try to deepen it. — Paul Newman

Payback is a bitch, and the bitch is back. — Stephen King

Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses. — James Baldwin

We will preach the truth to a new generation: The doorway to all freedoms is framed with muskets. It's time the apologists step aside and let freedom's followers lead the way. — Charlton Heston

I gained the distinct impression that he was blocking some flow of emotion inside himself — No One

Van Gogh is utterly dead; the world may be fixed, but it never was broken. And shadow itself may resolve into beauty. — Annie Dillard

Step follows step,
Hope follows Courage,
Set your face towards danger,
Set your heart on victory. — Gail Carson Levine

Reason is an outcome of frailty and resentment. When Will fails to cope with the labour of life, or the life of labour, its fragile remnants are set to construct a slighter world of justifications. — Raheel Farooq

The simpler explanation,' Emerson with a distinct uvular component in his Sigh, 'may be that none of you people has ever known a moment of Transcendence in his life, nor would recognize one did it walk up and bit yese in the Arse, - and in the long sorry Silence, grows the suspicion that Jesuits are but the latest instance of a true Christian passion evaporated away, leaving no more than the usual hollow desires for Authority and mindless O-bedience. — Thomas Pynchon

In order to get to know who is in your System, each individual alter needs to complete a piece of paper in the form of a circle (or triangle) which contains the following information: their name, their age (it might be an age range, like age 4-7), and their traits. strengths and skills. (All parts must have a name. If they do not have a name, they need to choose one. lf their name was given to them by a perpetrator and is too upsetting or if it has a negative association, they may wish to change their name - that is perfectly ok. Any name that is not negative or triggering is fine - it does not have to be a standard 'proper name' as they are commonly thought of.) On the back of the circle or triangle they need to write down what caused them to split off. — A.T.W.

But I retained the landscape, and I have since annually carried off what it yielded without a wheelbarrow. — Henry David Thoreau

Commonplace minds usually condemn what is beyond the reach of their understanding. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

When you introduce a moral lesson, let it be brief. — Horace