Egglestone Hall Quotes & Sayings

I now truly believe it is impossible for me to make a bad movie. — Jean-Claude Van Damme

When I write, I don't translate for white readers ... Dostoevski wrote for a Russian audience, but we're able to read him. If I'm specific, and I don't overexplain, then anyone can overhear me. — Toni Morrison

Honesty is a principle. Service is a principle. Love is a principle. Hard work is a principle. Respect, gratitude, moderation, fairness, integrity, loyalty, and responsibility are principles. There are dozens and dozens more. They are not hard to identify. Just as a compass always points to true north, your heart will recognize true principles ... — Sean Covey

Laughing like crazy
the child goes back to the city
gives birth to monsters
creates earthquakes
hairy women run naked
old folks who look like fetuses laugh and smoke. — Nicanor Parra

Do you wish to be accepted for who you are? Do you wish to be loved without condition? Do you wish for people to welcome you, in spite of your flaws, in spite of your shortcomings, in spite of your mistakes? Then why do you insist on changing others? -Evening Prayer from the Holy Scrolls of Soeck, Eleventh Binding Third Stanza — Aaron Lee Yeager

The way our group or class does things tends to determine the proper objects of attention, and thus to prescribe the directions and limits of observation and memory. What is strange or foreign (that is to say outside the activities of the groups) tends to be morally forbidden and intellectually suspect. — John Dewey

We live counterfeit lives in order to resemble the idea we first had of ourselves. — Andre Gide

All these people formed by language and climate and popular songs and breakfast foods and the jokes they tell and the cars they drive have never had anything in common so much as this, that they are sitting in the furrow of destruction. — Don DeLillo

Maybe we're about to radically change the operating system of the human condition. If so, then this would be a really good time to make backups of our civilization. — Bruce Sterling

Ten million dollars after I'd become a star I was deeply in debt. — Sammy Davis Jr.

Some nights I knew that if I slept I would die. — Charles Bukowski

Patriotism is an instant reaction that fades away when the war starts. — Mick Jagger

The things we do outlast our mortality. The things we do are like monuments that people build to honor heroes after they've died. They're like the pyramids that the Egyptians built to honor the pharaohs. Only instead of being made of stone, they're made out of the memories people have of you. — R.J. Palacio

The irony of life: Realizing a lifetime is barely long enough to figure out how it should have been lived. — Richelle E. Goodrich