Atticilla Quotes & Sayings

If you take a sophisticated idea, reduce it to the simplest possible terms so that it's accessible to everybody, and don't get simple mixed up with simplistic, it's how you mount and present something that makes it engaging. — Gordon Willis

Professors stare down from their podiums; that's their insecurity. — Marty Rubin

. . . I could't get lost in the story, not the way you need to be, to become somebody else. — Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl

Prose of the World is an enormously compelling and vivid study. The result is an ambitious, timely, and eloquent account of the relationship between early-twentieth-century fiction and the contemporary global novel in English. — Rebecca L. Walkowitz

You will be able to program a robot to follow a track on the ground and manipulate a hand. You can also write little programs that will give the robots goals. — Bill Budge

Christmas was really where I started coming into my own as a performer because I did all this stuff on my own, all this performing on my own, When other kids were outside playing, I was in my room conjuring characters and impressions and things like that. — Jim Carrey

I have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease to ask of me. He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have nothing to refuse. — Martial

Sufism is, in operation, pragmatic. — Idries Shah

Nothingness is the basis of everything. — Jaggi Vasudev

Abuse is a parasite that feeds off hate and shame, growing in size and strength with silence. — Nikki Sex

I'm a person who has a lot of energy. So, yes, I don't really stop to rest or de-stress. I just keep going. I figure that if you don't stop, then you'll never notice how tired you are. — Zooey Deschanel

Any apparent somewhere which you may inhabit is always at the mercy of a ruthless and omnivorous everywhere. — E. E. Cummings

It's incredible to me how blithely even intelligent people sometimes toss around terms like "transcendence" and "crucifixion." The words move us on paper. They feel noble upon the tongue. But when they cease to be sounds and begin to caress the flesh and bones, when they leave the page and get physical, there is little that even the best of us woudn't do to escape them. — David James Duncan

He smiles, and he's made of trouble. — Rainbow Rowell

If you want to be a part of this community that you love, I realized - this family that keeps you sane in a shitty, boring world, this million-dollar enterprise that you fund with your consumer clout, just as much as male listeners do - you have to participate, with a smile, in your own disintegration. You have to swallow, every day, that you are a secondary being whose worth is measured by an arbitrary, impossible standard, administered by men. — Lindy West

If everyone had to start up their own business, socialism would soon die. — James Cook