Comunas De Santiago Quotes & Sayings

The number one reason knitters knit is because they are so smart that they need knitting to make boring things interesting. Knitters are so compellingly clever that they simply can't tolerate boredom. It takes more to engage and entertain this kind of human, and they need an outlet or they get into trouble.
... knitters just can't watch TV without doing something else. Knitters just can't wait in line, knitters just can't sit waiting at the doctor's office. Knitters need knitting to add a layer of interest in other, less constructive ways. — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

Life is like riding in a taxi. Whether you are going anywhere or not, the meter keeps ticking. — John C. Maxwell

One of the tricky things about sort of larger, comic-book action movies is that the scale is so big that they have to save the world at the end of every movie, and so at the end of each of the films, either Chicago or New York end up getting obliterated. — Graham Moore

All men dream: but not equally. Those that dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible. - T.E. Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia — Ash Maurya

...it felt like we were friends. Friends who barely knew anything about each other except the other's most private secret. — Alice Oseman

Never let your past mistakes cause you to doubt your future — Jessica Houston

Gay marriage! That's a huge change and a huge win-win for feminism. — Kathleen Hanna

To have a child is the greatest honor and responsibility that can be bestowed upon any living being.
- Arya — Christopher Paolini

Avoid doing what you would blame others for doing. — Thales

The standard you walk past is the standard you accept. — David Morrison

The things that are important to me - being a mother, a businesswoman, an activist - are all things that were borne out of great passion. — Elizabeth Taylor

Eventually I got asked to be in a Michael J. Fox sitcom called High School U.S.A. I didn't think it was funny and said no. They doubled the money, and that kind of offended me. I realized, oh, that's right, my opinion means nothing in Hollywood. I'd seen other people compromise, and I felt that once you gave up on what you wanted to do, you couldn't go back. It was selling out. So I decided to go back to Minneapolis. — Joel Hodgson

An uncomfortable feeling is not an enemy. It's a gift that says, "Get honest; inquire." We reach out for alcohol, or television, or credit cards, so we can focus out there and not have to look at the feeling. And that's as it should be, because in our innocence we haven't known how. So now what we can do is reach out for a paper and a pencil, write thought down, and investigate. — Byron Katie

The catalog showed a man sleeping peacefully while his model-wife read a book in soft but focused light. In real life, however, the light was so intense that the same man would have had to wear sunglasses. — Lorrie Moore

One nanny said, "Feed a cold"; she was a neo-Keynesian. Another nanny said, "Starve a cold"; she was a monetarist. — Harold Macmillan