Anemone Nemo Quotes & Sayings

I'm living in this world. I'm what, a slacker? A "twentysomething"? I'm in the margins. I'm not building a wall but making a brick. Okay, here I am, a tired inheritor of the Me generation, floating from school to street to bookstore to movie theater with a certain uncertainty. I'm in that white space where consumer terror meets irony and pessimism, where Scooby Doo and Dr. Faustus hold equal sway over the mind, where the Butthole Surfers provide the background volume, where we choose what is not obvious over what is easy. It goes on ... like TV channel-cruising, no plot, no tragic flaws, no resolution, just mastering the moment, pushing forward, full of sound and fury, full of life signifying everything on any given day ... — Richard Linklater

Ignorance of impending evil is far better than a knowledge of its approach. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

The emotions aren't always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action. — William James

The traditional statement about language is that it is in itself living, and that writing is the dead part of language. — Jacques Derrida

I really can't deal with all this lovey-dovey shit. It's like watching Romeo and Juliet on repeat." "Don't they die in the end?" Neal questioned. — J.J. McAvoy

Unfortunately, Poots is the name that I've been graced with for my life, but it's not short for anything - apart from Imogen Poots. — Imogen Poots

For a firm believer in swadeshi, there need be no Pharisaical self-satisfaction in wearing khadi. — Mahatma Gandhi

If you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with. — Stephen Stills

So long as some are strong and some are weak, the weak will be driven to the wall. — W. Somerset Maugham

Habit is heaven's gift to us:
a substitute for happiness. — Alexander Pushkin

The heart doesn't care about bloodlines or birth parents. It just seems to know how to love in the same way our lungs know how to breathe. — Melissa Foster

Was that you just inadvertently telling me to stay away from you?"
"No," he answered, meeting my eyes. "That was me telling you directly to listen to your gut and what it's screaming at you right now. — Nicole Williams

Improvisation is the art of being completely O.K. with not knowing what the f - you're doing — Mick Napier

One feels such love for the little ones, such anticipation that all that is lovely in life will be known by them, such fondness for that set of attributes manifested uniquely in each: mannerisms of bravado, of vulnerability, habits of speech and mispronouncement and so forth; the smell of the hair and head, the feel of the tiny hand in yours - and then the little one is gone! Taken! One is thunderstruck that such a brutal violation has occurred in what had previously seemed a benevolent world. From nothingness, there arose great love; now, its source nullified, that love, searching and sick, converts to the most abysmal suffering imaginable. — George Saunders

Women are of two sorts. Some of them are wiser, better learned, discreeter, and more constant than a number of men. But another and a worse sort of them ... are fond, foolish, wanton, flibbergibs, tatlers, triflers, wavering, witless, without council, feeble, careless, rash, proud, dainty, nice, talebearers, eavesdroppers, rumor-raisers, evil-tongued, worse-minded, and in every way doltified with the dregs of the Devil's dunghill. — John Aylmer