Coupledoms Quotes & Sayings

And, like Christmas, Armand has brought gifts. But he is no fat, sweet Santa Claus who rewards the nice; he is the Lord of Misrule, the Abbot of Unreason in charge of scandalous fun. — Eliza Crewe

While the mind is in doubt it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse. — Terence

I often avoid using the terms 'figuration' and 'abstraction' because I've always tried to have it both ways. I want the experience of looking at one of my paintings to be similar to the process of making the painting - you go from the big picture to something very intense and detailed, and then back again. — Cecily Brown

Infatuation is the fun part of falling in love. Infatuation triggers a chemical in the brain called PEA, your heart races, and you get breathless and dizzy, you tremble, and you can't think. It's what most people think of when they think of falling in love, and everybody goes through it. — Jennifer Crusie

He could swear he did not look back, could not - by any optical chance, or in any prism - have seen her physically as he walked away; and yet, with dreadful distinction, he retained forever a composite picture of her standing where he left her. The picture - which penetrated him, through an eye in the back of his head, through his vitreous spinal canal, and could never be lived down, never - consisted of a selection and blend of such random images and expressions of hers that had affected him with a pang of intolerable remorse at various moments in the past. — Vladimir Nabokov

It's insulting to ask a dramatist what his view of his play is. I have no opinion. — Edward Bond

Guys Rule's girl is here and she's like an actual girl with an actual brain. un-freaking-believable. — Jay Crownover

People - I mean couples - don't like to talk much about fighting. It's not attractive. No one likes to admit it or describe it or lay claim to it. We want our coupledoms to look ... sanitized and pretty and worthy of admiration. And anger blasts are ugly. But, I think that is a crock. There is a kind of fighting that isn't ugly. There is a way for anger to come our as an energy you let loose and away. The trick is to give it a form, and not a human target. The trick is to transform rage. — Lidia Yuknavitch

You'd be surprised what I can do with a butter knife. — S.L. Wallace

Creativity, which is the expression of our originality, helps us stay mindful that what we bring to the world is completely original and cannot be compared. — Brene Brown

It costs personal fear to be authentic but the reward is integrity, and by that I mean a soul fully integrated, no difference between his act and his actual person. — Donald Miller

Anyone of my generation who tells you he hasn't 'done Brando' is lying. — James Caan

The various levels of problems and issues are interwoven, so that solving any one of them without simultaneously addressing the others rarely works for long. — Arnold Mindell

And she realized that she still wanted Jared when all thoughts of passion were dead, when other consolation seemed like a cruel joke - that she wanted to be with him when the thought of being with anyone else was unbearable, when the thought of someone else touching her made her want to scream. — Sarah Rees Brennan

Design is more than just a few tricks to the eye. It's a few tricks to the brain. — Neville Brody

My father joined our party because the Democrats in Jim Crow Alabama of 1952 would not register him to vote. The Republicans did. — Condoleezza Rice