Conchis Dia Quotes & Sayings

I think the crucial thing about being an actor is to be doing it. — Chiwetel Ejiofor

If the solar system was brought about by an accidental collision, then the appearance of organic life on this planet was also an accident, and the whole evolution of Man was an accident too. If so, then all our present thoughts are mere accidents
the
accidental by-product of the movement of atoms. And this holds for the thoughts of the materialists and astronomers as well as for anyone else's. But if their thoughts
i.e. of materialism and astronomy
are merely accidental by-products, why should we believe them to be true? I see no reason for believing that one accident should be able to give me a correct account of all the other accidents. It's like expecting that the accidental shape taken by the splash when you upset a milkjug should give you a correct account of how the jug was made and why it was upset. — C.S. Lewis

The faking of feelings is a sin against the imagination. — Seamus Heaney

The great authors were great readers, and one way to understand them is to read the books they read. — Mortimer J. Adler

If there is any truth to my parenting the dreamwork movement, it comes from the power of the press. — Henry Reed

Word like that, others' opinions of you, shouldn't have that kind of power, Saint. But they did and therein lay the problem. I was always guilty of letting other people's words and actions hurt me and dictate how I felt about myself, and it was costing me more than I ever thought. — Jay Crownover

The magnificent cause of being,
The imagination, the one reality
In this imagined world ... — Wallace Stevens

I was at an ATM and this old lady asked me to help check her balance, So I pushed her over. — Hudson Moore

Imagine a tiny ant on the back of a massive African elephant. No matter how diligently that ant marches east, if the elephant he sits upon travels in the opposite direction, the ant will end up farther west than his starting point. Similarly, we will find ourselves receding from our goals if our conscious and subconscious minds are not aligned. — Vince Poscente

The paradox of relaxation is the renewal of mind; rekindle of spirit and revitalize of strength. — Lailah Gifty Akita

That's something you'll have to decide for yourself.. I think you have a right to live however you want. Whether you're fifteen or fifty-one, what does it matter? But unfortunately society doesn't agree.
~Oshima, page 198 — Haruki Murakami

Whoever knows you when you are young can look inside you and see the person you once were, and maybe still are at certain times. — Alice Hoffman

I was an adjunct. I never got tenure, never had it. I was a professor, though. But I never got tenure. I never really wanted tenure, to tell you the truth. Really wasn't - the guys who got - the tenured people were some of, like, the least interesting. And they were people I didn't really like very much anyway. — Robert Barry