Capullos De Polillas Quotes & Sayings

My movie [The Neon Demon] is a hyper-version of the obsession with beauty. As this crazy obsession grows, longevity does not. Everything seems to become younger and younger. The girls and people around them cannibalize themselves. — Nicolas Winding Refn

It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals who inhabit the earth with him, and consequently no ignorance is probably without loss to him, no error without evil. — James Smithson

When I started to write 'Hannah's Child,' I realized that this had to be a book of passion, to have a certain kind of vulnerability. I think that people respond to that. — Stanley Hauerwas

Love is just a system for getting someone to call you Darling after sex. — Julian Barnes

You have to surrender to your mediocrity, and just write. Because it's hard, really hard, to write even a crappy book. But it's better to write a book that kind of sucks rather than no book at all, as you wait around to magically become Faulkner. No one is going to write your book for you and you can't write anybody's book but your own. — Cheryl Strayed

when evoking personal recollections, patients with depersonalization often complain that memories feel as if they really didn't happen to them — Mauricio Sierra

Lose your weight
Lose your mind
But don't lose heart
It's very expensive . — Amit Abraham

I have wanted to kill myself a million times,
but somehow I am still in love with life. — Voltaire

I grew up with Frank Sinatra and it has taken me a long time to get to a place where I really enjoy [U2's] music. — Ali Hewson

And when I had learned it, I looked at
my life, and it was also a river, and the boy Siddhartha was only
separated from the man Siddhartha and from the old man Siddhartha by a
shadow, not by something real. Also, Siddhartha's previous births were
no past, and his death and his return to Brahma was no future. Nothing
was, nothing will be; everything is, everything has existence and is
present. — Hermann Hesse

Mma Makutsi had overheard this remark and had been so cross that her glasses misted over; that was always a bad sign, Mma Ramotswe knew. — Alexander McCall Smith

Through Twitter, I've got a writing career and a directing career, as well as hundreds of other beneficial things that have happened to me. I love it. — Peter Serafinowicz

The truth is "hate speech" only to those who have something to hide. — Michael Rivero

There's a lot of gray area in the law. Who can say, without a doubt, that I was in the wrong? — Zach Braff