Carpenay Quotes & Sayings

She had come to him to escape her mother's world, a world where all bodies were equal. She had come to him to make her body unique, irreplaceble. But he, too had drawn an equal sign between her and the rest of them: he kissed them all alike, stroked them all alike, made no, absolutely no distiction between Tereza's body and the other bodies. He sent her back to the world she tried to escape, sent to march naked with the other naked women — Milan Kundera

Do not look around to discover other people's ruling principles, but look straight to this, to what nature leads you, both the universal nature through which things happen to you, and your own nature through the acts which must be done by you. — Marcus Aurelius

I'm not really a pitcher; I just play one in the movies. — Dennis Quaid

She was a woman attempting to make some sense of, and get some satisfaction from, a life that seemed to have no more logic than a roulette wheel. — Vincent Canby

I've realized that a lot of life is not what you say,see,it's what you don't say.People have to make up their own minds then.It's like a game, and only we know the rules. — Martina Cole

I'd always maintained that much of the anarchy and craziness of the early Internet had a lot to do with the fact that governments just hadn't realised it was there. — William Gibson

What's the point of opening yourself up to your friends if they don't notice you in your vulnerable state? The point of it all is to love friends completely and utterly, at their best and worst, and to love more than just the good things. It's about showing that you're willing to accept them for whatever they are, that they should not feel insecure or self-conscious in your presence, which can be a hard task to achieve. — Esther Earl

Those who elected Hamas in Palestine did so on the basis of its political platform. — Hassan Nasrallah

Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. — Gloria Naylor

I thought you were opposed to engaging in prostitution to fund our travels."
"That's not what I - is prostitution your answer for everything? — Claudia Gray

Writing is prayer. — Franz Kafka

Everything I do, I do for love. — Marian Bantjes

Page 357 - if the mountain was smooth, you couldn't climb it. — Susan Vreeland

You have to kind of shift the way you look at life when you're in a group of people that you work with. It's not so much, do they make you feel good when you're around them all the time; it's how can you make everyone feel comfortable together. — Adam Duritz