Disorderly Threads Quotes & Sayings

[Photography] is the non-complacence of the eye. To practice my right to look is also a critical attitude. If I stare at you, I will make you uncomfortable, and culturally we have a difficulty of staring and being stared at. — Pedro Meyer

I'm not a reality-TV kind of guy. But it's almost like we're living in a reality show. Every day in this country, everybody keeps worrying about the deterioration of America, and it's like a big reality show. — Clint Eastwood

Well, go on then, Abby; run along and let the nice man compromise you. — Anne Gracie

Every enlightened path can turn on itself and become a new tyranny, — Karl Schroeder

Champagne has the taste of an apple peeled with a steel knife — Aldous Huxley

The first day you meet you are friends, the next day you are brothers. — Brigid Kemmerer

He put his wrists out in front, and as he spoke the words engraved on them, he turned his arms around slowly. "Dum spiramus tuebimur, which in English reads: while we breath, we shall defend," he told her. — Madison Thorne Grey

Because if you remember - and people forget this - the first two years of Game of Thrones everybody was going, "I don't know what's going on, but I really like it." And you really didn't know what to make of a lot of people, and now it's changed and people aren't really talking about that. Now it's like you're watching West Wing or Friends, you know the characters and you're like, "What in the world is going to happen?" — Alex Graves

The artist's talent sits uneasy as an object of public acclaim, having been so long an object of private despair. — Robert Breault

Knowledge gives us power and respect. — Saaif Alam

If religion is about the sacred as opposed to the profane, the spirit as opposed to matter, the Creator as opposed to the created, Confucianism plainly does not qualify. But perhaps what we are to learn from this tradition is not that Confucianism is not a religion but that not all religious people parse the sacred and the secular the way Christians do. — Stephen R. Prothero

But I had absolutely lost all sense of personal dignity, and could not tear myself away from the spectacle of my own misery. — Ivan Turgenev

Relationships matter. They matter as much as exercise and nutrition. And not all relationships help us reach our goals. God doesn't give us crying, pooping children because he wants to advance our careers. He gives them to us for the same reason he confused language at the Tower of Babel, to create chaos and deter us from investing too much energy in the gluttonous idols of self-absorption. — Donald Miller