Dokterstas Quotes & Sayings

I believe the teacher's work is largely negative, that it is largely a matter of saying, "This doesn't work because ... " or "This does work because ... " The because is very important. The teacher can help you understand the nature of your medium, and he can guide you in your reading. — Flannery O'Connor

I haven't really written my plays and books - I've heard them. The stories are there already, singing in your genes and in your blood. — Sebastian Barry

Always in your stomach and in your skin there was a sort of protest, a feeling that you had been cheated of something you had a right to. — George Orwell

I feel like you only need one moment of inspiration to turn your life around. — DeVon Franklin

It is certain that the inanimate objects by which you are surrounded have a direct action on the brain. — Jules Verne

That is when I understood the magical meaning of the circle. If you go away from a row, you can still come back into it. A row is an open formation. But a circle closes up, and if you go away from it, there is no way back. It is not by chance that the planets move in circles and that a rock coming loose from one of them goes inexorably away, carried off by centrifugal force. Like a meteorite broken off from a planet, I left the circle and have not stopped falling. Some people are granted their death as they are whirling around, and others are smashed at the end of their fall. And these others (I am one of them) always retain a kind of faint yearning for that lost ring dance, because we are all inhabitants of a universe where everything turns in circles. — Milan Kundera

When a man wants to relax, he will slob out and really relax. Or he will pursue a hobby - anything from building models to watching sport. — Julie Burchill

Trying to figure out a person that you don't know is like foreplay
with no consummation. — Jacqueline Simon Gunn

When you focus your thoughts on something you want, and you hold that focus, you are in that moment summoning what you want with the mightiest power in the Universe. The law of attrac- tion doesn't compute "don't" or "not" or "no," or any other words of negation. As you speak words of negation, this is what the law of attraction is receiving: "I don't want to spill something on this outfit." "I want to spill something on this outfit and I want to spill — Anonymous

Fuckity ... Shit ... Fuck! — Samantha Young

It is a painful thing to say to oneself: by choosing one road I am turning my back on a thousand others. Everything is interesting; everything might be useful; everything attracts and charms a noble mind; but death is before us; mind and matter make their demands; willy-nilly we must submit and rest content as to things that time and wisdom deny us, with a glance of sympathy which is another act of our homage to the truth. — Antonin Sertillanges

I am for people. I can't help it. — Charlie Chaplin

I simply said that I would do everything to help Taiwan to defend itself. — George W. Bush

Enlightened self-interest" was how Solo himself had described it. — Greg Rucka

How people's faces turned slightly upward when they stared at the sea, as if they were straining to see a trace of God or were hearing the silent humming of the universe; she would notice how, at the beach, people's faces became soft and wistful, reminding her of the expressions on the faces of the sweet old dogs that roamed the streets of Bombay. As if they were all sniffing the salty air for transcendence, for something that would allow them to escape the familiar prisons of their own skin. — Thrity Umrigar