Alma Levant Hayden Quotes & Sayings

I probably have a different mental approach to swimming than most people. I actually enjoy training. — Dawn Fraser

The way I've described Helen's sort of rigorous honesty I just think he also has tremendously. It's very strange ... he just has this sort of way of making it happen really. You're not really aware of being directed, so much as being a part of this thing. — Colin Firth

All girls who seemed to have everything going for them. And decided they had nothing. — Sasha Grey

I feel no disgust when I hear the confessions of those near their end, whose wounds are full of maggots ... This may give you some idea of my daily work. Picture to yourself a collection of huts with 800 Lepers. No doctor; in fact, as there is no cure, there seems no place for a doctor's skill. — Father Damien

This is the secret of the stars, I tell myself. In the end, we are alone. No matter how close you seem, no one else can touch you. ~ Amy — Beth Revis

A cathedral, a wave of a storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped. — Marcel Proust

Writing prejudicial, off-putting reviews is a precise exercise in applied black magic. The reviewer can draw free-floating disagreeable associations to a book by implying that the book is completely unimportant without saying exactly why, and carefully avoiding any clear images that could capture the reader's full attention. — William S. Burroughs

Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale. It cannot be fabricated out of public relations. It comes to us when we are alone, in quiet moments, in quiet places, when we suddenly realize that, knowing the good, we have done it; knowing the beautiful, we have served it; knowing the truth we have spoken it — Alfred Whitney Griswold