Comprendo Translation Quotes & Sayings

In front of the photograph of my mother as a child, I tell myself: she is going to die: I shudder, like winnicott's psychotic patient, over a catastrophe which has already occurred. Whether or not the subject is already dead, every photograph is this catastrophe. — Roland Barthes

When opportunity knocks, you don't leave it standing on the doorstep. You invite it in and feed it chocolate cake. — Carolyn Brown

I started writing 'Leaves Of Grass' when my professional life was falling apart somewhat. I just had a movie implode in pre-production. And so I came back licking my wounds to New York, where I live, and started to write a script about a protagonist for whom the exact same thing happened: His life was falling apart. — Tim Blake Nelson

You can receive your ideas with respect and curiosity, not with drama or dread. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Most modern men want sex and can't have it. They want success and never get it.
They want money and never earn enough. Everybody has desires and nobody
Except the psychopathic few - Has the guts to go out and just take what they want.
- Professor Michael Friday — Barbie Wilde

It is easy to imagine that the great labyrinth, winding round an entire island in the northern ocean, is the reason behind the fleeting, solitary existence of those who live in it, but this does not explain why they built it in the first place. Perhaps they really did want to lose themselves. — A.C. Tillyer

I still play the guitar and piano, but hardly ever in public. — Michael Storm

Give yourself some credit for the work you put in with your own two hands. But remember to never forget the people and things that have helped you along the way. — John O'Callaghan

Feelings, like waves, look more substantial than they are. — Peter Kreeft