Ceratile Quotes & Sayings

Seek always to do some good, somewhere ... Even if it's a little thing, so something for those that need help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it. — Albert Schweitzer

There had been a slice of time, somewhere sliding away from him now and fading into the slippery past, where Walker had been a happy man. Where his life should've ended to keep him from enduring any of the suffering beyond. But he had made it through that brief bliss and now could hardly recall it. He couldn't imagine what it felt like to rise with anticipation every morning, to fall asleep with contentment at the end of every day. — Hugh Howey

Someone should write a book where the main character slowly falls in love with the reader. — Unknown

Pleasure is an important component of the quality of life, but by itself it does not bring happiness. Pleasure helps to maintain order, but by itself cannot create a new order in consciousness. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

You have an awareness of your body and how to use it and I think that if you can embody a character physically it's another really useful tool. — Mia Wasikowska

Theoretically, we know that the world turns, but in fact we do not notice it, the earth on which we walk does not seem to move andwe live on in peace. This is how it is concerning Time in our lives. And to render its passing perceptible, novelists must ... have their readers cross ten, twenty, thirty years in two minutes. — Marcel Proust

I didn't come to Hollywood to be subservient to anyone else's vision. — Nic Pizzolatto

When Beethoven went deaf, the mynah bird just used to mime. — Graham Chapman

My life's misery and tragedy is my wealth and splendor. — Debasish Mridha

Once there was a dictator. He drove millions to various kinds of deaths, by war, in prison, or simply in harsh deserts farming their lives away. He destroyed temples, burned books, and ruined the art of calligraphy. He wrote terrible poetry and forced everyone to learn it, so destroying the literary taste of one quarter of humanity. He remained a warrior even as Chairman. He was at his best as a warrior, because as a warrior, he was fighting for his people, dreaming for them. After that, he only ground them down. But I forgive him for saying one beautiful thing:
'Women hold up half the sky.'
Chairman Mao Tse Tung — Geoff Ryman

Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion, and to reconstruct the learning that would enable them autonomously to seek that completion. — Allan Bloom

She took off her blouse, her trousers, her bra, her panties, and stood before him naked. — Paulo Coelho