Azaria Chamberlain Quotes & Sayings

Friendship is the positive and unalterable choice of a person whom we have singled out for qualitites that we admire. — Abel Bonnard

One of the grubby truths about a loss is that you don't just mourn the dead person, you mourn the person you got to be when the lost one was alive. This loss might even be what affects you the most. — Meghan O'Rourke

I learned long ago that being Lewis Carroll was infinitely more exciting than being Alice. — Joyce Carol Oates

I like being the one who makes a difference. On the pitch, I always try to create a special situation. — Zlatan Ibrahimovic

I always felt caged, closed in, like I was punching at things that weren't there. I always had too much energy for the room I was in. — Angelina Jolie

Barry recounts all this in prose of often startling beauty. Just as he describes people stopping in the street to look at Roseanne, so I often found myself stopping to look at the sentences he gave her, wanting to pause and copy them down. — Margot Livesey

Love, she felt, ought to come all at once, with great thunderclaps and flashes of lightning; it was like a storm bursting upon life from the sky, uprooting it, overwhelming the will, and sweeping the heart into the abyss. It did not occur to her that rain forms puddles on a flat roof when the drainpipes are clogged, and she would have continued to feel secure if she had not suddenly discovered a crack in the wall. — Gustave Flaubert

Don't you want to die nobly for a just cause?"
"I'd much rather live quietly for one. — Terry Pratchett