Alexander Vlahos Quotes & Sayings

If this is the only life, then why I'm not just doing everything I want to do. — James Franco

Other people
grandparents, sisters and brothers, the mother's best friend, the next-door neighbor
get to be familiar to the baby. If the mother communicates her trust in these people, the baby will regard them as delicious novelties. Anybody the mother trusts whom the baby sees often enough partakes a bit of the presence of the mother. — Louise J. Kaplan

I knew that I did not want to go to that juvenile diversion program because I had an intuitive sense that it would turn me irrevocably into the kind of character that I was now only rehearsing to be. — Gabrielle Hamilton

The actual writing is what you live for. The rest is something you have to get through in order to arrive at the point. — Raymond Chandler

All people deserve respect, but not all ideas do. — Johann Hari

That's what I love about the short story. You are naked on the page. There is nowhere to hide. — Jay Caselberg

I cannot believe that God wants punishment to go on interminably any more than does a loving parent. The entire purpose of loving punishment is to teach, and it lasts only as long as is
needed for the lesson. And the lesson is always love. — Madeleine L'Engle

unequally; rarely do they assign equal weights to attributes when performing categorization (Goodman, 1955; Medin & Schaffer, 1978; Nosofsky, 1984; Ortony, 1979; Sutherland & Mackintosh, 1971; Trabasso & Bower, 1968: A. Tversky, 1977). — Lawrence W. Barsalou

We all agree now - by 'we' I mean intelligent people under sixty - that a work of art is like a rose. A rose is not beautiful because it is like something else. Neither is a work of art. Roses and works of art are beautiful in themselves. — Clive Bell

As for us, we respect the past here and there, and we spare it, above all, provided that it consents to be dead. If it insists on being alive, we attack it, and we try to kill it. — Victor Hugo

It is better to exist unknown to the law.' — Michael Scott

Abra was ready ere I called her name. And though I called another, Abra came. — John Steinbeck

Dominant negativity cheats reality of its mutual positives. — Bryant McGill

You will begin to see your life as an opportunity to share the special gift you alone can bestow upon the world. — Deepak Chopra

Of all the unusual features of Stargirl, this struck me as the most remarkable. Bad things did not stick to her. Correction: her bad things did not stick to her. If we were hurt, if we were unhappy or otherwise victimized by life, she seemed to know about it, and to care, as soon as we did. But bad things falling on her
unkind words, nasty stares, foot blisters
she seemed unaware of. I never saw her look in a mirror, never heard her complain. All of her feelings, all of her attentions flowed outward. She had no ego. — Jerry Spinelli