Althans Synoniem Quotes & Sayings

I really loved it because it really informed his way of seeing my character and the story. If you look closely he always had this metaphor of an egg, of a little chick pecking her way out of a shell, and in one scene in the kitchen there are all these white plates on a wall and then in the middle there is a yellow plate so even that looks like an egg. And a lot of the furniture was almost sculpted in that way as well. It was really cool to see that. — Mia Wasikowska

Excrement, meet air-moving device. — J.L. Merrow

What do you want out of life?" I asked, and I used to ask that all the time of girls.
I don't know," she said. "Just wait on tables and try to get along." She yawned. I put my hand over her mouth and told her not to yawn. I tried to tell her how excited I was about life and the things we could do together; saying that, and planning to leave Denver in two days. She turned away wearily. We lay on our backs, looking at the ceiling and wondering what God had wrought when He made life so sad. — Jack Kerouac

we have a plastic brain that changes in response to our experience. It bears repeating: The brain doesn't tell us what to do; it is part of a system in which our life experience teaches our brain what to do. So you can practice mindfulness, will power, overcoming procrastination, and other healthy new skills with the confidence that you are changing your brain. Each day's practice does some good, and if you slip and fall off your diet or exercise program or mindfulness practice, all that you have learned before is not undone; it's still there in your brain waiting for you to get back in the saddle. — Richard O'Connor

Being in Blur has allowed me to travel and hear the music that's being made all over the world. — Damon Albarn

The president, clearly as a result of the war and the afterglow of the war, is in a time of great attention. — Bob Graham

And one of the interesting things about bound feet is that they never age. — Lisa See

Since I began booking some stuff with no formal acting training I told myself, that I needed to really study to stay in the game for the longevity and I did just that. — Jaime Zevallos

The same educational process which inspires and stimulates the oppressor with the thought that he is everything and has accomplished everything worth while, depresses — Carter G. Woodson

The Booker 2011 is of no more interest to me than the world heavyweight championship, which I'm not going to win either. It's irrelevant. — Edward St. Aubyn

In people like us, the craving is as strong as the craving for food or water, the yearning for touch or light or love. I was looking for something--a diversion, an occupation, an unwavering force--that would elevate me, that would lift me out of the melancholy dissection of my own interior geography that otherwise would have consumed me pitilessly, as it had my father. I wanted to fly above myself-- if only for a few hours--and look down in tranquility upon my life. — Ethan Canin

You can do anything you want to do. — Estelle Getty

To start from the self and try to understand all things is delusion. To let the self be awakened by all things is enlightenment. — Dogen

Badass is a juvenile aspiration. — Gabrielle Hamilton

[ ... ] love is a do thing. It's an energy that has to be dissipated. — Bob Goff