Eli Clare Exile And Pride Quotes & Sayings

But, Foley, my lad, it isn't beauty per se that makes wire-walking Zen or makes it art. It's the extremity of the risks that are assumed by each exquisite gesture, each impossible somersault. Here's a more extreme version of the dangerous beauty bullfights used to possess before the matadors became preening cowards and stacked the desk against the beasts. We only rise above mediocrity when there's something at stake, and I mean something more consequential than money or reputation. The great value of a high-wire act is that it has no practical value. The fact that so much skill and effort and courage can be directed into something so ostensibly useless is what makes it useful. That's what affords it the power to lift us out of context and carry us-elsewhere. — Tom Robbins

It hurts so good and I feel euphoric after ... yoga people on a whole are super cool and everyone is there to work on their own thing. — Heather Graham

I can't relax. I find vacations problematic. — John Oliver

I think people want to stay home and run movies with their whole family at home. It become a family hobby instead of going out to the theater, sad to say. But I think it's very good because it reaches millions that would never see these movies. — Debbie Reynolds

I like women. I want them to feel good. It's practically been my mission in life. — Karen Marie Moning

I write across several genres. I'm a slut for words. I can't keep it in my literary pants. — Fierce Dolan

To get new result, plan out new strategies. — Sunday Adelaja

I grew up in austerity in the 1940s and 1950s. — David Hockney

You do what you think is right and let the law catch up, — Thurgood Marshall

My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company. — Jane Austen

As the last dish of confections was removed a weird pageant swept across the further end of the banqueting-room: Oberon and Titania with Robin Goodfellow and the rest, attired in silks and satins gorgeous of hue, and bedizened with such late flowers as were still with us. I leaned forward to commend, and saw that each face was brown and wizened and thin-haired: so that their motions and their wedding paean felt goblin and discomforting; nor could I smile till they departed by the further door.
("The Basilisk") — R. Murray Gilchrist

I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look forward with the work. — William Ernest Hocking

It's no such thing! she said. It's friendship! And if you're a man who can't tell friendship from charity, then you're to be pitied! — Bette Lee Crosby

My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families - second families, perhaps I should say. — Abraham Lincoln