El Teorema De Katherine Quotes & Sayings

I know when things are going to get me a little nervous, because nervous to me feels good. — Misty May-Treanor

We live in a world that worships limitations — Tama J. Kieves

And because my teeth don't bite, I can take them out dancing I can take my little teeth out and show them a real good time — Devendra Banhart

Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal. — Wanda Sykes

It was as if my father had given me, by way of temperament, an impossibly wild, dark, and unbroken horse. It was a horse without a name, and a horse with no experience of a bit between its teeth. My mother taught me to gentle it; gave me the discipline and love to break it; and- as Alexander had known so intuitively with Bucephalus- she understood, and taught me, that the beast was best handled by turning it toward the sun. — Kay Redfield Jamison

A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition. -Jose Bergamin, author (1895-1983) — Jose Bergamin

The one and original lovable monster is lost amid all the hydraulic manipulations in what now emerges as the story of a dumb blonde who falls for a huge plastic finger. — Judith Crist

There are dangers in sentimentalizing nature. Most sentimental ideas imply, at bottom, a deep if unacknowledged disrespect. It is no accident that we Americans, probably the world's champion sentimentalizers about nature, are at one and the same time probably the world's most voracious and disrespectful destroyers of wild and rural countryside. — Jane Jacobs

Bad Men Do What Good Men — Ian Rankin

Victim-eyes of impersonal tragedy, to be impersonal no longer. — Doris Lessing

I was emancipated at 15 and off to Japan on a contract working. I felt for my parents. I apologized profusely years later, but I was just very strong-willed and strong-minded and had my own idea - thought outside of the box. — Jaime Pressly

In the middle of a novel, a kind of magical thinking takes over. To clarify, the middle of the novel may not happen in the actual geographical centre of the novel. By middle of the novel I mean whatever page you are on when you stop being part of your household and your family and your partner and children and food shopping and dog feeding and reading the post - I mean when there is nothing in the world except your book, and even as your wife tells you she's sleeping with your brother her face is a gigantic semi-colon, her arms are parentheses and you are wondering whether rummage is a better verb than rifle. The middle of a novel is a state of mind. Strange things happen in it. Time collapses. — Zadie Smith