Briani Ray Quotes & Sayings

My heavens! I've been talking prose for the last forty years without knowing it. — Moliere

Most of my writing friends are working in academia. Most of my business school friends are always talking about bringing companies public, and money, and making money, and lots and lots of money. It's just a different environment. — Victoria Chang

'The New Black Yoga' originally was born from a film that I had made prior called 'Black Yoga.' And I was living in Berlin at the time, dealing with a lot of anxiety and stress around the project that I was working on, which is not an abnormal thing for me. — Rashid Johnson

People who have faith in life are like swimmers who entrust themselves to a rushing river. They neither abandon themselves to its current nor try to resist it. Rather, they adjust their every movement to the watercourse, use it with purpose and skill, and enjoy the adventure. — David Steindl-Rast

Buddhism doesn't promise to fulfill our desires. Instead it says, 'You feel unfulfilled? That's okay. That's normal. Everybody feels unfulfilled. You will always feel unfulfilled. There is no problem with feeling unfulfilled. In fact, if you learn to see it the right way, that very lack of fulfillment is the greatest thing you can ever experience.' This is the realistic outlook. — Brad Warner

When you identify yourself with a group of people or a set of ideas, aren't you separating yourself? — Jiddu Krishnamurti

It's not about the future, it's about the moment. — Tammy Kling

You always get told how important the premiere and doing the press is, but I have suspicions. — Toby Jones

Love is never wasted, for its value does not rest upon reciprocity. — C.S. Lewis

I FUCKING LOVE HER! I scream, my heart thrashing in my ribs. — Krista Ritchie

It would be possible to make much more progress than has been made if the NCI knew its job better, knew how to make discoveries ... The NCI really does not know how to make discoveries ... So long as the NCI is not willing to follow up ideas that seem good to people who have had experience making discoveries, the work of the NCI is going to be pedestrian. — Linus Pauling

For me, reading that scene never fails to bring on a brief, scalding instant of recognition in recalling exactly what it was like to be a tiny little kid, your whole sense of being so lumpy and vulnerable that the smallest things were everything, and the everything could be so unspeakably wonderful, and the wonderful could be snatched away in an instant, leaving a big ragged hole in your universe just like the one in Laura's dress. — Wendy McClure

People who meet me think of Jill and transfer her strong qualities to me. — Patricia Richardson

Love is a kind of killing, Addy," she says. "Don't you know that? — Megan Abbott

In real life, I myself am kind of a rambling guy. I like to travel. — Alexander Payne