Disasterous Quotes & Sayings

The audience is the camera. I don't want the audience to sit and watch, I want it to move. — King Hu

Gratitude is absolutely the way to bring more into your life — Marci Shimoff

It is unimaginably hard to do this - to live consciously, adultly, day in and day out. — David Foster Wallace

Every day is a lie. But you are dying. That is not a lie. — Cormac McCarthy

I don't want my body to look like a man's. I just want to tone my body. — Sherilyn Fenn

She thought of ... the way he never made made her feel crazy, even when she was acting crazy, and never made her feel like a failure, even when she was failing. — Rainbow Rowell

It's pretty obvious that Western lifestyles which rely on gigantic amounts of electricity use up far more resources than a subsistence-based life. A little more poverty would be a good thing. — Tom Hodgkinson

It was great to do August Rush and have all the challenges of playing that character, especially the American accent for the first time and also playing the guitar and the conducting I had to do. — Freddie Highmore

To anticipate & prevent disasterous contingencies would be the part of wisdom & patriotism. — George Washington

No. 1, it [amnesty for illegal aliens] demoralizes the people that are going through the legal process. It's a very clear signal that why go through the legal process if you can accomplish the same thing through the illegal process? And No. 2, it demoralizes the people enforcing the law. So I am not and I will never support - never have and never will support - any effort to grant blanket legalization amnesty to folks who have entered or stayed in this country illegally. — Marco Rubio

The English tradition offers the great tapestry novel, where you have the emotional aspect of a detective's personal life, the circumstances of the crime and, most important, the atmosphere of the English countryside that functions as another character. — Elizabeth George

To win a war is as disasterous as to lose one. — Agatha Christie

So, we, as human beings, live in a very imprecise world. A world where our perceptions of reality are far more important than actual reality. — Daniel Keys Moran

I was never part of the crowd. — Jimmy Connors

I remember Liz, her face white, delicate as an ash on the wind; her red lips staining the cigarette; her full breasts under the taut black jersey. She said to me, "But think how happy you can make a man someday." Yes, I'm thinking, and so far it's all right. But then I do a flipover and reach out in my mind to E., seeing a baseball game, maybe, perhaps watching television, or roaring with careless laughter at some dirty joke with the boys, beer cans lying about green and shiny gold, and ash trays. I spiral back to me, sitting here, swimming, drowning, sick with longing. I have too much conscience injected in me to break customs without disasterous effects; I can only lean enviously against the boundary and hate, hate, hate the boys who can dispel sexual hunger freely, without misgiving, and be whole, while I drag out from date to date in soggy desire, always unfulfilled. The whole thing sickens me. — Sylvia Plath

The human eyelid is not teartight (happily for the human eye). — Samuel Beckett