Borgarskjalasafn Quotes & Sayings

I would rather be the good aunt who never says anything bad and lets the parents discipline the child. — Ellen DeGeneres

For meaning is never in the event but in the motion through event. Otherwise we could isolate an instant in the event and say that this is the event itself. The meaning. But we cannot do that. For it is the motion which is important. — Robert Penn Warren

Like many others, I sometimes find that cooking can be naturally grounding. — Surya Das

I like to think of myself as an observer. — Mia Wasikowska

Maybe that's what it all comes down to. Love, not as a surge of passion, but as a choice to commit to something, someone, no matter what obstacles or temptations stand in the way. And maybe making that choice, again and again, day in and day out, year after year, says more about love than never having a choice to make at all. — Emily Giffin

When I first came down stairs, for two or three minutes I went down cellar to the water closet. — Lizzie Andrew Borden

I'm not afraid. I never liked long last acts. — Lillie Langtry

Without strong affection, and humanity of heart, and gratitude to that Being whose code is mercy, and whose great attribute is benevolence to all things that breathe, true happiness can never be attained. — Charles Dickens

Thing is,' Sis confided, 'all the important people here look ordinary and the really fancy ones are usually broke or on the make. I'll tell you, you're in an upside-down world now,' she said, shaking her head. 'Takes a while, but you'll get used to it. — Kathleen Tessaro

You grow up ... you spend five years rooming with each other, and you're going to get sick of each other at times. And you're going to have some good times as well. — Patrick Kane

If one person in a group of ten is missing the tip of his little finger, I will notice it almost immediately. This extreme attention to visual detail is not a virtue, just a fact of my person. It happens seemingly involuntarily and strikes me as neither good nor bad. — Rosemary Mahoney