Ensimismamiento Wiki Quotes & Sayings

"Sarge, mr. Nurd here is threatening to turn me to jelly."
"really?" said Sarge. "what flavor? — John Connolly

During his hajj, Malcolm [Malcolm X] fell into a new Islam with the same blind faith that he had given to Elijah. Since he lived just a year after his hajj, Mecca became the neatly presented and cinema-friendly conclusion to his lifelong thread of transformations: but he finally found the Truth and then Allah took him home. But if he lived longer, I think he would have called out the Arabs. — Michael Muhammad Knight

All women need makeup. Don't let anybody tell you different. The only woman who was pretty enough to go without makeup was Elizabeth Taylor and she wore a ton. — Tracy Letts

It is a fault, not a virtue, to wish your humility recognized and applauded. — Bernard Of Clairvaux

The fact that I could correctly make a reference to the Borg was probably part of the reason I was not being accepted into the Collective. — Molly Harper

The simple fact is that, since the beginning of this century, the average global temperature has flatlined; indeed, over the past 18 months it has fallen back, and according to the satellite measurements of temperature, it is now basically back at the level it was in 1979, when such measurements started to be taken. — Peter Lilley

This I know: the mind, left to itself, repeats the same stories, the same loops. Mostly ones that don't serve us. So what's practical, what's transformative, is to consciously choose a thought. Then practice it again and again. With emotion, with feeling, with acceptance. Lay down the synaptic pathways until the mind starts playing it automatically. Do this with enough intensity over time and the mind will have no choice. That's how it operates. Where do you think your original loops came from? — Kamal Ravikant

O: 'The most we can do is to write - intelligently, creatively, critically, evocatively - about what it is like living in the world at this time — Bill Hayes

While I am most at home in London, I cannot really label myself as either British or Trinidadian. I write in the English language and live in the U.K. I find it hard to say that I am an entirely British writer, especially when I supported Trinidad in the 2006 World Cup and also support the West Indies cricket team. — Monique Roffey

Only someone who had experienced such bitter despair would be able to recognize it in another. — Lisa Kleypas

How impossible it is for strong healthy people to understand the way in which bodily malaise and suffering eats at the root of one's life! The philosophy that is true - the religion that is strength to the healthy - is constantly emptiness to one when the head is distracted and every sensation is oppressive. — George Eliot

If anything, people think it's cool that I'm still working. I'm proud to be a working mama in this world. — Megan Alexander

It is easy to be a philosopher in academia, but it is very difficult to be a philosopher in life. — Anton Chekhov

I'd rather be overweight and curvy than super thin with no curves. I'm proud of my body. — Holly Madison