Atherton Wing Quotes & Sayings

99 percent of every beautiful thing you ever knew escaped and went back out into the world where you vaguely remembered it. — Ron Padgett

Sure, love vincit omnia; is immeasurably above all ambition, more precious than wealth, more noble than name. He knows not life who knows not that: he hath not felt the highest faculty of the soul who hath not enjoyed it. — William Makepeace Thackeray

You've just put the kibosh on getting any from me in here. — Kristen Callihan

No! No! I'll get the ten cups, I swear it! — Megan Whalen Turner

You can be aware that something is idiosyncratic, and give it to a character, but keep doing it. — Noah Baumbach

Restraint: not just for sex anymore. - T-SHIRT — Darynda Jones

The traits of our sexual culture are still speechlessness, loneliness, violence and not enough desire and love. — Volkmar Sigusch

The only way of finding a solution is to fight back, to move, to run, and to control that pressure. — Rafael Nadal

Already, the brain consumed more than a quarter of the body's blood supply ... an organ accounting for only a small percentage of body mass. If brains grew larger, and better, then perhaps they would consume more - perhaps so much that, like an infection, they would overrun their hosts and kill the bodies that transported them. Or perhaps, in their infinite cleverness, they would find a way to destroy themselves and each other. There were times when, as he [Stone] sat at State Department or Defense Department meetings, and looked around the table, he would see nothing more than a dozen gray, convoluted brains sitting on the table ... Just brains, sitting around, trying to decide how to outwit other brains, at other conference tables.
Idiotic. — Michael Crichton

The risk of all friendship is, alas, a little grief. — Alison Croggon

By being an athlete, I have uncovered so many other ways to express my beauty. Being a strong, fearless woman makes me feel beautiful. I love the way I look and feel when I am two hours into my training and my skin is glistening with sweat and my clothes are drenched because I have given it all I've got. — Laila Ali

And then, going to high school, I saw how popular girls had to behave to get the boys. I knew I couldn't fit into that. So I decided to do the opposite. I refused to wear makeup, to have a hairstyle. I refused to shave. I had hairy armpits. — Madonna Ciccone

I have a very well organized closet. — Greg Kinnear