Borbonus Carpet Quotes & Sayings

Most writers are perfectly normal in the head and just carry on like wild men; I behave normally but I'm sick inside. — Yukio Mishima

If you are anything like me
Clever, fond of goat cheese, and devilishly handsome
then you have undoubtedly read many books. — Brandon Sanderson

The Pilgrims believed beer was an unalloyed good, a 'good creature of God.' People who did not drink were suspect and 'crank-brained. — Susan Cheever

Wise words are like arrows flung at your forehead. What do you do? Why, you duck of course. — Steven Erikson

We find what we are looking for. If we are looking for life and love and openness and growth, we are likely to find them. If we are looking for witchcraft and evil, we'll likely find them, and we may get taken over by them. — Madeleine L'Engle

Therefore, although anxiety is part of life, never let it control you. If it comes too close, say: "I'm not worried about tomorrow, because God is there already, waiting for me." If it tries to persuade you that taking on lots of jobs means having a productive life, say: "I need time to look at the stars in order to feel inspired and to be able to do my job well. — Paulo Coelho

Bog-lights, vapors of mysticism, psychic Gnosticisms, veils and tissues of words, gibbering subjectivisms, gropings and maunderings, ontological fantasies, pan-psychic hallucinations - this is the stuff, the phantasms of hope, that fills your book shelves.
Come. Your glass is empty. Fill and forget. — Jack London

Markets as well as mobs respond to human emotions; markets as well as mobs can be inflamed to their own destruction. — Owen D. Young

Searching for the real faces of every face we met! This is what our life is! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

It is not sufficient that what one paints should be made visible. It must be made tangible. — Georges Braque

Sexiness, particularly in movies, is the chess game in the 'Thomas Crown Affair'. It's, it's, I don't know, but Faye Dunaway comes up a lot in that thinking. It's the subtlety of sexiness. The moment you try to be sexy, then it's not. — Daniel Craig

Our moneyed men have ruled us for the past thirty years. Under the flag of the slaveholder they hoped to destroy our liberty. — Denis Kearney

I don't really remember the day when I stood behind my camera with Henry Kissinger on the other side. I am sure he doesn't remember it either. But this photograph is here now to prove that no amount of kindness on my part could make this photograph mean exactly what he.. or even I.. wanted it to mean. It's a reminder of the wonder and terror that is a photograph. — Richard Avedon

My friend is one who takes me for what I am. A stranger takes me for something else than what I am ... What men call social virtues, good fellowship, is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter which lie close together to keep each other warm. It brings men together in crowds and mobs in bar-rooms and elsewhere, but it does not deserve the name of virtue. — Henry David Thoreau

I'm an actor, and I'm supposed to reflect real people. — Tamsin Greig