Colloquio Clinico Quotes & Sayings

There are two very natural propensities which we may distinguish in the most virtuous and liberal dispositions, the love of pleasure and the love of action. If the former is refined by art and learning, improved by the charms of social intercourse, and corrected by a just regard to economy, to health, and to reputation, it is productive of the greatest part of the happiness of private life. — Edward Gibbon

I love that people can't place me. They don't know my name. That's 'mission accomplished' in my world. — John C. Reilly

In the Damascus airport she had been humiliated by what she was assumed to be, and when she returned home, she felt angry because of what she could have been. — Azar Nafisi

I like ice hockey. No one is ever going to ask me to write about that as a metaphor for life. — Steven Pinker

...the reward for getting through life is getting life itself. — Sue Halpern

I am not a master-class director. I am not a teacher. I am a coach. I dont have a methodology. Each actor is different. And on the film set, you have to be next to them all. — Sam Mendes

Septimus was suddenly horribly afraid that the Antidote would not work. He glanced nervously at Marcia, who whispered, "It will work, Septimus. You must believe in it."
Physik isn't like Magyk," said Septimus unhappily. "It doesn't matter whether you expect it to work or not. Either it does or it doesn't."
"I doubt that very much," said Marcia. "A little belief in something always helps. — Angie Sage

A library card is good to have, you can never have too much ID. — Stephen King

Moral epochs have their course as well as the seasons. We can no more hold them fast than we can hold sun, moon, and stars. Our faults perpetually return upon us; and herein lies the subtlest difficulty of self-knowledge. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

These are the nameless larvae of the Other Gods, and like them are blind and without mind, and possessed of singular hungers and thirsts. — H.P. Lovecraft

I reached a point in my life where I felt like I was living through some old character. — Billy Corgan