Astuto In English Quotes & Sayings

I'm actually in my 22-year-old son Jason's band, After Midnight Project. The music is like Coldplay-ish rock. — Greg Evigan

It's fun to play somebody who has no boundaries or rules. There's no book you can read on how to play a witch, so you just create a version. It's really great! — Mila Kunis

Would you care to share our lunch, old ... good wo ... miss?" he said. "It's only salt pork, I'm afraid." "Meat is extremely bad for the digestive system," said Magrat. "If you could see inside your colon you'd be horrified." "I think I would," muttered Hwel. — Terry Pratchett

alcohol played the midwife — James Branch Cabell

When you believe without knowing you believe that you are damaged at your core, you also believe that you need to hide that damage for anyone to love you. You walk around ashamed of being yourself. You try hard to make up for the way you look, walk, feel. Decisions are agonizing because if you, the person who makes the decision, is damaged, then how can you trust what you decide? You doubt your own impulses so you become masterful at looking outside yourself for comfort. You become an expert at finding experts and programs, at striving and trying hard and then harder to change yourself, but this process only reaffirms what you already believe about yourself
that your needs and choices cannot be trusted, and left to your own devices you are out of control (p.82-83) — Geneen Roth

I worked nightclubs all through my 20s, and I was a teetotaler. — Dick Van Dyke

Not every secret must be solved; some must be left as a mystery because we cannot bear a universe without mysteries! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

With Shakespeare and poetry, a new world was born. New dreams, new desires, a self consciousness was born. I desired to know to know myself in terms of the new standards set by these books. — Peter Abrahams

'White Christmas' is one of my favorite movies, so I've always just had a love for that kind of golden era musical. — Jessie Mueller

I made up 'Badlands'; anything I say, goes. I came to realize I was materializing a metaphor for my mental state. — Halsey