Alteneder 11 Quotes & Sayings

I believe that there is luminosity hiding in the shadow of the mundane. And things that hover at the periphery of our vision. If that's magic, then I believe in it. — Natasha Mostert

When I was first running marathons, we were sailing on a flat earth. We were afraid we'd get big legs, grow mustaches, not get boyfriends, not be able to have babies. Women thought that something would happen to them, that they'd break down or turn into men, something shadowy, when they were only limited by their own society's sense of limitations. — Kathrine Switzer

Is it really so important to be different? — Walter Van Tilburg Clark

One time my mom tried to send me to my room for a time-out when I was 5 or 6, and I was like, "Fine! I like my room! All my imagination and toys are in my room!" I will never forget that. And she will never forget that. — Elizabeth Olsen

War is a perversion of sex. — Alan Moore

To some extent I liken slavery to death. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

We have an assumption here in America that the kind thing to do is to be "friendly," which means being extroverted, even intrusive. The Japanese assume the opposite: being kind means holding back. — Laurie A. Helgoe

Faulkner sat in our living room and read from Light in August. That was incredible. — Leslie Fiedler

I realised all the good ideas were taken before I was even born. — Jeff Kinney

Medical care has become a lot of crust and precious little pie. — Mark Vonnegut

The French are like a coin with a different face on either side of it (every coin has two faces), for every action there is an equally strong opposing idea that vibrates on the other end within them like the receiving side of a series of ripples in a pond. But this is all happening within themselves. The French are exactly like their own language: there are too many letters but then you're not supposed to pronounce them! — C. JoyBell C.

Cease trying to work everything out with your mind. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be a Revelation. — Eileen Cady

People consider me a success because I'm a good football player and make lots of money. But if my heart's not right, if I'm not living a life pleasing to God, I'm a failure. — Reggie White

Making an Irishness to be proud of in a real Republic. It is the vision of a real Republic where life and language, where ideals and experience have the ring of authenticity which we need now as we go forward. — Michael D. Higgins

Mountains complement desert as desert compliments city, as wilderness compliments and completes civilization. — Edward Abbey