Birte Tove Quotes & Sayings

When Levin thought about what he was and what he lived for, he found no answer and fell into despair; but when he stopped asking himself about it, he seemed to know what he was and what he lived for, because he acted and lived firmly and definitely. — Leo Tolstoy

There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face. — Bernard Williams

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent. — Dalai Lama

I close my eyes and think of what might be possible. And, in my mind, I see fireworks over the Hudson. — Christy Hall

The worst is when men try too hard, because it's not very masculine. Your outfit has to look like 'Oh, I just grabbed that.' Not too calculated. Jeans, a t-shirt: the simpler the better. — Eva Green

All men are created equal and endowed by their Creator with a mighty urge to become otherwise. — Evan Esar

Nothing annoys people so much as not receiving invitations. — Oscar Wilde

Novelists never have to footnote. — Jane Smiley

We cling to the idea that success is a simple function of individual merit and that the world in which we all grow up and the rules we choose to write as a society don't matter at all. — Malcolm Gladwell

That which destroys the old mythos becomes the new mythos. — Robert M. Pirsig

Routes rate me, not the other way around. — Andy Cairns

Meditation leads you to your spiritual information, and takes you on a journey of getting to know yourself and your creations. — Mary Ellen Flora

A person's desires, the things a person found beautiful, were probably best kept to oneself. — Victor Lodato

Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man. — Martin Heidegger

The work is different in the sense that I haven't had to travel round the world raising money, or work from the genesis of the project. But the collaboration feels clear always, it's sort of my drug, I'm in it for the conversation. The conversation's the most important part of it. — Tilda Swinton