Anne Grethe Andersen Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes gaining and losing are more intimately related than we like to think. And some things cannot be moved or owned. Some light does not make it all the way through the atmosphere, but scatters ... The blue of distance comes with time, with the discovery of melancholy, of loss, the texture of longing, of the complexity of the terrain we traverse, and with the years of travel. If sorrow and beauty are all tied up together, then perhaps maturity brings with it not ... abstraction, but an aesthetic sense that partially redeems the losses time brings and finds beauty in the faraway ... Some things we have only as long as they remain lost, some things are not lost only so long as they are distant. — Rebecca Solnit

But it was excruciating to emerge from my eerie submarine existence into this harsh stampede of noise and light. — Donna Tartt

The universe wants you to succeed. So listen to her deep driving desires and be a great success. — Debasish Mridha

Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates. — Don Marquis

There are no extraordinary men ... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with. — William Halsey

The wheel ... is an extension of the foot.
The book ... is an extension of the eye ...
Clothing, an extension of the skin ...
Electric circuitry, an extension of the central nervous system. — Marshall McLuhan

It'd felt good to be part of an "us," with the same thoughts, the same feelings, the same miseries. — Jennifer Brown

The best way to feel at ease in the kitchen is to learn at someone's knee. — Laurie Colwin

I can play every instrument there is, every horn, I've played all the saxes and trumpets and everything and keyboards. — Dick Dale

He got a tan over break. I used to tell him he was so pale he looked like a marshmallow. He hated that I compared him to food. I told him that's what he got for calling me caramel. It shut him up. — Angie Thomas