Akuten Quotes & Sayings

Genius hath electric power; Which earth can never tame; Bright suns may scorch and dark clouds lower; Its flash is still the same. — Lydia M. Child

The photo replaces the memory. When someone dies, after a while you can't visualize them anymore, you only remember them through their pictures. — Christian Boltanski

The most miraculous process is watching a song go from a tiny idea in the middle of the night to something that 55,000 people are singing back to you. — Taylor Swift

I live by the sea, but the body of water I have the most feeling about is the Mississippi River, where I used to row and skate, ride on the ferry in childhood, watch the logs or just dream. — Susan Glaspell

The singers all loathe the sight of one another, the chorus despises the singers, they both hate the orchestra, and everyone fears the conductor; the staff on one prompt side won't talk to the staff on the opposite prompt side, the dancers are all crazed from hunger in any case ... — Terry Pratchett

If you do something that you're proud of, that someone else understands, that is a thing of beauty that wasn't there before - you can't beat that. — Teller

So this is what commodity corn can do to a cow: industrialize the miracle of nature that is a ruminant, taking this sunlight- and prairie grass-powered organism and turning it into the last thing we need: another fossil fuel machine. This one, however, is able to suffer. — Michael Pollan

There was, between her and Mik, a fairy-tale promise: that when he had performed three heroic tasks, he could ask for her hand. She'd meant it in jest, but he'd taken it to heart, and was only one task down out of three - though secretly Zuzana accepted his fixing the air-conditioning in their last hotel room as a heroic act and counted it. — Laini Taylor

Many of today's verses are prose and bad prose. — Eugenio Montale

My parents were both actors; my dad sort of quite early on. My mother acted for a while, and now she's a painter. — Sam Rockwell

I am currently talking to one of the studios about making American Star as a TV series. — Jackie Collins

We have done wrong, and are reaping the fruits of wrong. — Charles Dickens