Quotes & Sayings About Asking A Girl To Be Your Girlfriend

I frequently go to the ballet, but I don't miss it in the sense that I wish I were still dancing. — Damian Woetzel

Press conferences are good. I have my own philosophy about press conferences. I usually think that when they don't like the movie, they ask about other things. — Joel Silver

You cannot stop the ocean's current, but you can swim. — Matshona Dhliwayo

[...] It is. Philosophy is a field that, unfortunately, reminds me of that old Woody Allen joke, "those that can't do, teach, and those that can't teach, teach gym." And the worst part of philosophy is the philosophy of science; the only people, as far as I can tell, that read work by philosophers of science are other philosophers of science. It has no impact on physics what so ever, and I doubt that other philosophers read it because it's fairly technical. And so it's really hard to understand what justifies it. And so I'd say that this tension occurs because people in philosophy feel threatened, and they have every right to feel threatened, because science progresses and philosophy doesn't.
[the atlantic, Has Physics Made Philosophy and Religion Obsolete? - interview, apr 23 2012] — Lawrence M. Krauss

In De Rerum Natura, Lucretius pointed out a very central truth concerning the examined life. That is, that the man of science who concerns himself solely with science, who cannot enjoy and be enriched by art, is a misshapen man. An incomplete man. — William Styron

Courage, Brave Heart — C.S. Lewis

He who would tell divers tales must know how to vary the tune. — Marie De France

The fish are naked.
The fish are always awake.
They are the color of old spoons
and caramels. — Anne Sexton

The abrupt and sudden death of my wife has taken a severe emotional and psychic toll on me. On top of that, some people have stooped so low that they have tried to use my personal tragedy for their personal benefit. — Shashi Tharoor

It's interesting, on your second day of existence, to realize that your father is going to blame all the future failures of his life on you. — Josh Lieb

The wisdom of age: don't stop walking. — Mason Cooley

There is no time to plan, there is no space to think. No respite. No forgiveness. There is only war. — Warhammer 40 000 Source Book

Why were drunks, almost always, persons of talent, personality, lovable qualities, gifts, brains, assets of all kinds (else why would anyone care?); why were so many brilliant men alcoholic? — Charles Jackson

From the slope of Haleakala, the Old Broad watched the activity in the channel with a two-hundred-power celestial telescope and a pair of "big eyes" binoculars that looked like stereo bazookas on precision mounts that were anchored into a ton of concrete. — Christopher Moore

I write because it is while I'm writing that I feel most connected to why we're here. I write because silence is a heavy weight to carry. I write to remember. I write to heal. I write to let the air in. I write as a practice of listening. — Andrea Gibson