Dorothy Garrod Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes I wish that I could stop you from talking, when I hear the silly things that you say. — Elvis Costello

From who?"
"From whom, I believe is the correct phrasing."
"All right, from-the-fuck-whom, Ms. Lane? — Karen Marie Moning

I have discovered that the unasked-for accident can be the salvation of what you are doing. — Stephen De Staebler

Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other powerless to be born. — Matthew Arnold

Time, not the Will, can put an end to love. — Publilius Syrus

You study Yoga in India, Liss?" he asks. "Yes, Ketut." "You can do Yoga," he says, "but Yoga too hard." Here, he contorts himself in a cramped lotus position and squinches up his face in a comical and constipated-looking effort. Then he breaks free and laughs, asking, "Why they always look so serious in Yoga? You make serious face like this, you scare away good energy. To meditate, only you must smile. Smile with face, smile with mind, and good energy will come to you and clean away dirty energy. Even smile in your liver. Practice tonight at hotel. Not to hurry, not to try too hard. Too serious, you make you sick. You can calling the good energy with a smile. All finish for today. See you later, alligator. Come back tomorrow. I am very happy to see you, Liss. Let your conscience be your guide. If you have Western friends come to visit Bali, bring them to me for palm-reading. I am very empty in my bank since the bomb. — Elizabeth Gilbert

How we spend our souls matter...We have to desire to become fearless with these moments [of decision]. Fight through the doubt and discouragement and awkwardness of new. (32) — Lysa TerKeurst

You have to be driven by the stories that you want to tell. You can't simply be responding, or there won't be any real heart to those stories anymore. — David Shore

Every effort to understand destroys the object studied in favor of another object of a different nature; this second object requires from us a new effort which destroys it in favor of a third, and so on and so forth until we reach the one lasting presence, the point at which the distinction between meaning and the absence of meaning disappears: the same point from which we began. — Claude Levi-Strauss

I'm not going to pretend that I know what you've gone through. But after reading those pages, I can assure you that you aren't the only one who was scarred in that fire. Just because he chose not to show you his scars doesn't mean they don't exist. — Colleen Hoover

When one rises above the individual villainy displayed, one can only pity them all, just as we shall be pitied some day. — Arthur Miller

It is critically important that as we age and our bodies become less flexible our minds become more so. — Steven A. Segal

Sobs, heavy, hoarse and loud, shook the chairs, and great tears fell through his fingers on the floor - just such tears, sir, as you dropped into the coffin where lay your first-born son; such tears, woman, as you shed when you heard the cries of your dying babe; for, sir, he was a man, and you are but another man; and, woman, though dressed in silk and jewels, you are but a woman, and, in life's great straits and mighty griefs, ye feel but one sorrow! — Harriet Beecher Stowe

Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children; life's the other way round. — David Lodge