Contratiempo Movie Quotes & Sayings

Thinking - in particular abstract thinking, which most of us are introduced to through the study of mathematics and literature - helps us learn that we can become problem solvers. — Kathryn Lasky

There is no better way to learn how to write than by writing a novel. — Lawrence Block

What if they were all playing the same part? What if each and every one of them was concealing the same doubts, none of them talking because they all felt so completely alone? — Hugh Howey

Of course, I believe in love. Its beautiful when it's right. My love life is like my music. — Michael Jackson

I wished to be an artist," Ivanya confides to Shara. "But it simply didn't turn out that way. I didn't have the ... I'm not sure. The imagination, I suppose, or the ambition, or both. You have to be a bit outside things to make something new, but I was always very much inside things. — Robert Jackson Bennett

For the moment, what we attend to is reality. — William James

We are having hot lesbian sex ... and by sex we mean tea but it's still hot. — Ananymous

You know what my favourite quotation is? ... It's from Chaucer ... Criseyde says it, I am myne owene woman, wel at ese. — Mary McCarthy

In addition, we have those who, while recognizing the Bible as a revelation from God, blunt its message by applying it to a time other than our own. This may take the form of an eschatologically overworked imagination, which pushes the significance of the Bible into the future. On this approach, the Bible is seen as a source book for end-times prophecies rather than a message that speaks to us in our everyday life. — Iain M. Duguid

Newspapers are horror happening to other people. — Nadine Gordimer

Even the new feminist research on sex-role socialization and sex differences has sometimes had the unfortunate consequence of creating a new set of stereotypes about what women feel and how women behave. Despite the large amount of overlap between the sexes in most research, the tendency to label and polarize and thus to exaggerate differences remains in much reporting of data, which may, for example, report the mean scores of male and female populations but not the degree of overlap. — Rosabeth Moss Kanter

When you're writing your own fiction, you don't have to ride two horses. — Elliott Colla

I'm so lucky to be in the position to give. It's really a gift to give. — Elvis Presley

Christianity is not stoicism. The Cross does not sanctify us by destroying human feeling. Detachment is not insensibility. Too many ascetics fail to become great saints precisely because their rules and ascetic practices have merely deadened their humanity instead of setting it free to develop richly, in all its capacities, under the influence of grace. — Thomas Merton

There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life
happiness, freedom, and peace of mind
are always attained by giving them to someone else. — Peyton C. March