Ecstasy Of Saint Teresa Quotes & Sayings

To say that a schlemiel is a luckless person is to touch only the negative side. It is the schlemiel's avocation and profession to miss out on things, to muff opportunities, to be persistently, organically, preposterously and ingeniously out of place. A hungry schlemiel dreams of a plate of hot soup, and hasn't a spoon. — Maurice Samuel

Man's usurpation over nature is an egotism that will destroy human as well as whale kingdoms. ... Academies should return to wisdom study in tree groves rather than robot study in plastic cells — Allen Ginsberg

What, then, would be the origin of tragedy? Perhaps joy, strength, overflowing health, overgreat fullness? And — Friedrich Nietzsche

Oooh, that was fun."
"That does it," said Jace. "I'm going to get you a dictionary for Christmas this year."
"Why?" Isabelle said.
"So you can look up 'fun.' I'm not sure you know what it means."
Isabelle pulled the long heavy mass of her wet hair forward and wrung it out as if it were wet washing. "You're raining on my parade."
"It's a pretty wet parade already, if you hadn't noticed." Jace glanced around. — Cassandra Clare

There's something in every atheist, itching to believe, and something in every believer, itching to doubt. — Mignon McLaughlin

Don't tear up the page and start over again when you write a bad line-try to write your way out of it. Make mistakes and plunge on. Writing is a means of discovery, always. — Garrison Keillor

I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn't itch. — Gilda Radner

The putrid carnal waste dump my skin and hair had become. An irate woman beating me with her placenta would have been more welcome than the copious amount of ... snot gluing my fingers together. — Cecy Robson

You can (be a middle-aged comic) if you work very hard at it, because comedy is really hard. — Andrew Denton

I don't exercise. My philosophy is: No pain, no pain. — Carol Leifer

Good luck and good timing are the same thing. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi