Catelas Quotes & Sayings

The gift of phrase was instantaneous to him in him, and that must partly account for his huge output; but there was a plentitude of mind as well as a swiftness of phrase to help him; he never put a nib wrong. — Jocelyn Gibb

For any role, I pretty much always go to the script, first and foremost. — Jessica Raine

Virtually all of life's ills boil down to mindlessness. If you can understand someone else's perspective, then there's no reason to be angry at them, envy them, steal from them. — Ellen Langer

OTTO. Apes don't read philosophy.
WANDA. Yes they do, Otto. They just don't understand it. — John Cleese

Life is a journey, it can take you anywhere you choose to go — Christina Aguilera

I hate babies. They're so human. — Hector Hugh Munro

Love is the binding force on every level of existence. — Peter Kreeft

I have traversed many kinds of health, and keep traversing them ... and as for sickness: are we not almost tempted to ask whether we could get along without it? Only great pain is the liberator of the spirit. — Oliver Sacks

The most defenseless tenderness and the bloodiest of powers have a similar need of confession. Western man has become a confessing animal. — Michel Foucault

The point of my work is to make it clear that all youth can make 'big miracles' happen. — Adora Svitak

I felt physically weak and broken down, but my worse ailment was an unutterable wretchedness of mind; a wretchedness which kept drawing from me silent tears. — Charlotte Bronte

Every grain of sand or silt carried out by the rivers and deposited at sea displaces a corresponding amount of water. — Rachel Carson

[f]ortune is the lease capricious of deities, and arranges things on the just and rigid system that no one shall be very happy for very long. — Evelyn Waugh

Right up till the 1980s, SF envisioned giant mainframe computers that ran everything remotely, that ingested huge amounts of information and regurgitated it in startling ways, and that behaved (or were programmed to behave) very much like human beings ... Now we have 14-year-olds with more computing power on their desktops than existed in the entire world in 1960. But computers in fiction are still behaving in much the same way as they did in the Sixties. That's because in fiction [artificial intelligence] has to follow the laws of dramatic logic, just like human characters. — Walter Jon Williams

I like developing characters who I find to have interesting psychology. Like politics and sex, but I'm really looking at bigger social problems that interest me, and that I can obsess over for a while. — Mora Stephens