Atavismus Quotes & Sayings

I've thought about the pictures often; what they show or, more accurately, don't show. Remembering what was happening elsewhere: in the distance, or behind the camera, off to one side. — Harriet Lane

I think I can see people wanting to hear more music-music now as opposed to all hip-hop. You know, which I have nothing against hip-hop. I think some of it is really good. But on the other hand, some of the real great artists are just being lost because they're not getting the airplay or anything to make them inspired to record again. — Nickolas Ashford

No matter how many times you have failed you must keep going forward. Only when you have become humble will you begin to grasp the meaning of life. — Frederick Lenz

How about a kiss, Saumensch?
He stood waist-deep in the water for a few moments longer before climbing out and handing her the book. His pants clung to him, and he did not stop walking. In truth, I think he was afraid. Rudy Steiner was scared of the book thief's kiss. He must have longed for it so much. He must have loved her so incredibly hard. So hard that he would never ask for her lips again and would go to his grave without them. — Markus Zusak

I'm terribly sorry, Fergal!'
'What for? I'm beginning to feel as if it's mine, too! — Trisha Ashley

I fight for the environment because we only have one planet, but I see how the environment affects poverty and how the environment affects women around the world. — Sophia Bush

It is really important that focusing on things such as spelling, punctuation, grammar and handwriting doesn't inhibit the creative flow. When I was at school there was a huge focus on copying and testing and it put me off words and stories for years. — Michael Morpurgo

My God, he thought, I'm going to die before I've been born. — Diana Gabaldon

Of course, my views developed in the course of time. But I have always believed in what I did and never acted against my conscience. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

People say that you can't change people's minds with a movie or book, but how do they get formed in the first place? They get formed by what we see and read. In a certain way, movies are ahead of their times. People make them and don't really know if the audience will respond to them. Once in a while, they do. — Thom Andersen

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.
Marcus Aurelius — Marcus Aurelius

We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds. — Aristotle Onassis

When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield. — Quintilian