Being Unbothered Quotes & Sayings

Who can endure a Cabbage Bed in October? - 'Sanditon — Jane Austen

That's a miserable and cursed word, to say I had, when what I have is nothing. — Plautus

One of the attractions of moving away into te life of employment, I think, is being disconnected and free, unbothered by membership. It is a life of beginnings without memories, but i is a life too that ends without being remembered. — Wendell Berry

What have future generations ever done for us? — Groucho Marx

I would forget my own beating heart, my own trembling body, my own sense of inexpiable degradation. I got up and started to throw off my things. Then the door opened and Jake came into the cabin. I did not want to look at him at first. I turned my back and fumbled with the tap of the basin. He did not say anything either. I whistled a tune under my breath. I wished he had been drunk, or laughing, or cursing, or in some way dragging himself down to my level. — Daphne Du Maurier

There ain't no point in making soup unless others eat it. Soup needs another mouth to taste it, another heart to be warmed by it. — Kate DiCamillo

By viewing images we cast onto outer reality as mirror reflections of inner reality, we come to know ourselves. — Sallie Nichols

All mathematicians live in two different worlds. They live in a crystalline world of perfect platonic forms. An ice palace. But they also live in the common world where things are transient, ambiguous, subject to vicissitudes. Mathematicians go backward and forward from one world to another. They're adults in the crystalline world, infants in the real one. — Sylvain Cappell

The bass line is the anchor for me. I started with the bass, and either doubled that and then added the harmonies, or sometimes added my own harmonies that I've always wanted to sing on the song. And then it just went on from there - singing violin parts and trumpet parts and just trying to emulate the sounds of the instruments. — Petra Haden

The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again. — B.F. Skinner

You'd never play Hamlet if you started worrying about who's played it before you. — Matthew Macfadyen

What is slang in one age sometimes goes into the vocabulary of the purist in the next. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Since Men changed the language that they learned of elves in the days when all the world was wonderful. — J.R.R. Tolkien

In the dug-out, on the bench. The Anfield bench. Bill stared out at the players of Liverpool Football Club on the pitch. The Anfield pitch. In the sun, the players of Liverpool Football Club shining. In the sun, in their kits. Their red shirts, their white shorts. And their white socks. And in the dug-out, on the bench. The Anfield bench. Bill heard the whistle blow, Bill heard the crowd roar. The Anfield crowd. — David Peace