Dishevelment Quotes & Sayings

It's a paper town. I mean look at it, Q: look at all those cul-de-sacs, those streets that turn in on themselves, all the houses that were built to fall apart. All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm. All those paper kids drinking beer some bum bought for them at the paper convenient store. Everyone demented with the mania of owning things. All the thing paper-thin and paper-frail. — John Green

You cannot see a person's heart, belief or motive unless it identifies itself with an action. — Brenda Johnson Padgitt

God went out of me
as if the sea dried up like sandpaper, as if the sun
became a latrine.
God went out of my fingers.
They became stone.
My body became a side of mutton
and despair roamed the slaughterhouse. — Anne Sexton

The failure of The Cable Guy impacted my career. I had to start writing and acting again. — Ben Stiller

Twisting the nipple so I inhaled audibly, and he hesitated for a moment but kept going. His dick smearing at my bare thighs. I would be shunted along whatever would happen, I understood. However he piloted the night. And there wasn't fear, just a feeling adjacent to excitement, a viewing from the wings. What would happen to Evie? — Emma Cline

Chess is a forcing house where the fruits of character can ripen more fully than in life — E. M. Forster

I think making any art requires a certain degree of high anxiety and total abandon. — David Crabb

May we not outgrow the belief that poverty is necessary? - Alfred Marshall 1890 — Martin Ravallion

I like you however you come. — Jodi Ellen Malpas

My daughter, Asia, has been in many of my movies. I love working with her. In the beginning, I was not supportive of her being an actress, but now I think she is fantastic. — Dario Argento

When we hear some beautiful piece of Mozart or admire a wonderful building, we suddenly become present in ourselves. That's unusual nowadays because dishevelment and distraction have become an art form. — John O'Donohue

Education is the Jewel casting brilliance into the future — Mari Evans

The armoury of having any academic education does not necessarily set you up for being a good or better actor. — Benedict Cumberbatch

...knowing often felt preferable to not knowing. It provided the illusion of control. — Jordan Castillo Price

She's wearing her hair in a bun, like a ballerina's. Buns are so sexy. They used to be a treat to take apart: it was like opening a gift. Heads with the hair pulled back into buns are so elegant and confined, so maidenish; then the undoing, the dishevelment, the wildness of the freed hair, spilling down the shoulders, over the breasts, over the pillow. He enumerates in his head: Buns I have known. — Margaret Atwood