Alicia Coutts Quotes & Sayings

Be a complex person. The more ways you define yourself, the less vulnerable you are to setbacks in any area. If you're only a writer, and your book doesn't sell, you're sunk. But if you're a writer and researcher and a teacher and a wife and mother and gardener and volunteer EMT and singer in the choir, it's easier to bounce back from disappointments. The more sources of joy and pleasure in your life, the better. — Anonymous

Without a purpose, life is motion without meaning, activity without direction and events without reason. Without a purpose life is trivial, petty, and pointless. — Rick Warren

It made our hair stand up in panic fear. — Sophocles

You may not like my burglar, but please don't damage him. — J.R.R. Tolkien

A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy. — Samuel Butler

My mom is definitely my rock. — Alicia Keys

All these years I'd thought being a spy was challenging. Turns out, being a girl is the tricky part. — Ally Carter

I have to be careful not to get a paunch - I'm so skinny that if I put any weight anywhere, it'd be there, and I don't like a bulge. I wouldn't mind if it went on my bosom, but it doesn't. — Jane Birkin

We want people to realize you are at a design school, not a land grant college. The way we look says a great deal about who we are. — James Hall

I play a guy who believes he's a king. He's the most common man in the world; in fact his family, like his suits, are just make-up. It's about dysfunctional people and dysfunctional relationships. — James Caan

My faith is in my colleagues. And when I meet other writers, journalists, who've been doing this for a long time, trying to make us aware of what it is that we're living in, I put my faith in those people. — Barry Lopez

If it comes out sounding like Dixieland jazz or classical or punk or rock or even slightly metal, that's because that's where I'm going to find inspiration. — Ben Harper

The joy I feel is immense; it burns inside me as though I have swallowed a piece of the sun. — Edith Pattou

I believe there are two periods in life, one for the bike, the other for becoming active on one's work. — Bernard Hinault

The asylum, and later the national health service, warehoused thousands of patients made mad by the intrusions of a sexual predator. But these institutions had been dominated by the discredited Freudian fantasy that sexual abuse doesn't happen - that it is our illicit desires that drive us crazy. A century ago, Freud recoiled from his own theory of the sexual seduction of children and projected the problem back into the patient. He claimed in his Aetiology of Hysteria that clients, typically women, were describing their fantasies, not facts, not 'real events'. P3 — Beatrix Campbell