Blood Puddles Spilled Quotes & Sayings

One reason most people never stop thinking is that mental frenzy keeps us from having to see the upsetting aspects of our lives. If I'm constantly brooding about my children or career, I won't notice that I'm lonely. If I grapple continuously with logistical problems, I can avoid contemplating little issues like, say, my own mortality. — Martha Beck

I strive for what you do find in Shakespeare's work - that there is a definite humanity and a definite character behind the writing in the sonnets, and it's very real because it's so deeply personal. I try to aspire to that in what I do. — Rufus Wainwright

You are a leader. It is time to lead. You must inspire, you must plan, you must make the world a better place. — Gemma Malley

The Buddha said: Believe nothing because a wise person said it, Believe nothing because it is generally held. Believe nothing because it is written. Believe nothing because it is said to be Divine. Believe nothing because someone else believes it. But believe only what you yourself judge to be true. — Russill Paul

I was born and raised Catholic. — Tom Araya

He [Hemingway] used a stand-up work place he had fashioned out of the top of of a bookcase near his bed. His portable typewriter was snugged in there and papers were spread along the top of the bookcase on either side of it. He used a reading board for longhand writing. — A. E. Hotchner

what is a dream but a series of lies designed to keep us immobilized in a dark room for hours at a time — Mallory Ortberg

The class went all right, and the ones after became easier. I was enthusiastic, naive and idealistic, and I was in love with my books. — Azar Nafisi

I don't know who I am, and who I'm not, I don't know who I'm supposed to be, and I miss who I was; I miss it every day, Kate, but there's no place for that August anymore. No place for the version of me who wanted to go to school, and have a life, and feel human, because this world doesn't need that August. It needs someone else. — Victoria Schwab

I guess I'm just one of these people who, when I decide I'm going to do something, I just do it. — Tom Ford

It is therefore clear that the five perceptions (i.e., the five senses) just like the other kinds of perceptual powers manifest the Divine Identity, which is the First Beloved and the Perfect Goal of man. Asf r, I, 1, p. 118 — Ibrahim Kalin

A big part of filmmaking is gathering a group of people you can work with. — Lenny Abrahamson

All leading from the rear gets you, is first place at the back of the line. — Mark W. Boyer

The leaves of hopes which have destined words in the body of the thought have settled to the ground. This is the world. — Sorin Cerin

In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine. — Milan Kundera