Auterial Quotes & Sayings

It astonishes me already when I compare my condition today with what it was a month ago. Before that I knew well enough one could fracture one's legs and arms and recover afterward, but I did not know that you could fracture the brain in your head and recover from that too ... — Vincent Van Gogh

The past exists only in your
mind," he said. "Likewise, the future exists only in your
mind because it has not happened. — Scott Adams

I know what it's like. To sabotage yourself. Nothing makes you hate yourself more than that. — Kirsten Hubbard

I love how you look at me. — Maya Banks

I am against boycotts in general: boycotts against us as well as anything and everything that can be boycotted. — Ada Yonath

[She] is one of those young ladies who seek to recommend themselves to the other sex by undervaluing their own, and with many men, I dare say, it succeeds. But, in my opinion, it is a paltry device, a very mean art. — Jane Austen

Our fraught way of life gives each of us a narrowly defined role, creating conditions conducive to developing only those elements in our psyche which allow us to grow within the confines of that role. The other areas of our psyche waste away. Hence lack of contact. Here psychological and social factors combine, and produce fear, distrust, moral baseness and the death of hope. — Andrei Tarkovsky

Novel-writing is a settling, lovely space. I call it self-indulgent - I feel mildly guilty about it. — Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

As compromised as their marriage might be, part of her still believed in her vows. She loved the man he'd been, and she loved the man she knew he could be. — Nicholas Sparks

That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury

I never thought people would buy the soundtrack [to Twilight]. So, it's a little more nerve-wracking now. I don't know. — Robert Pattinson

I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till i drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion. — Jack Kerouac

It just doesn't occur to an American that someone else will solve their problems. Americans take pride in solving problems for themselves. And if we fail, we get back up and try again. It's what we do. It's who we are. — Mitch McConnell

On a personal level, I'm proud of Grace Dunham for being so staunchly in her identity. It's a very unusual thing for a young person. I think she's been very strong about it. — Lena Dunham