Entombment By Caravaggio Quotes & Sayings

I haven't really written my plays and books - I've heard them. The stories are there already, singing in your genes and in your blood. — Sebastian Barry

For the Romans, gravitas denoted a man's metaphorical "heaviness" - a strength of purpose, sense of authority, depth of character, and commitment to the task at hand that together formed a structure sturdy enough to bear the weight of his significant responsibilities — Brett McKay

Yeah I flirt, I'm not blind and I'm not dead!. — Dolly Parton

Leaders are more powerful role models when they learn than when they teach. — Rosabeth Moss Kantor

I trained as a ballet dancer - well, I started when I was two and a half, and was serious about it from when I was eight until I was 18. — Jessica Brown Findlay

To value one another is our greatest safety, and to indulge in fear and contempt is our gravest error. — Marilynne Robinson

Even when all other forms of communication fail, books will remain. — George Brockway

I think when you move past your fear and you go after your dreams wholeheartedly, you become free. — LL Cool J

The modern atheist thinks he knows that God is dead; what he doesn't know is that, unconsciously, he continues to believe in God. What characterizes modernity is no longer the standard figure of the believer who secretly harbors intimate doubts about his belief and engages in transgressive fantasies. What we have today is a subject who presents himself as a tolerant hedonist dedicated to the pursuit of happiness, but whose unconscious is the site of prohibitions - what is repressed are not illicit desires or pleasures, but prohibitions themselves. "If God doesn't exist, then everything is prohibited" means that the more you perceive yourself as an atheist, the more your unconscious is dominated by prohibitions which sabotage your enjoyment. — Slavoj Zizek

I absolutely don't have $20 billion. But I'd love to, right? — Jack Ma

An awful lot of gay pop stars pretend to be straight. I'm going to start a movement of straight pop stars pretending to be gay. — Robbie Williams

The children looked like remnants of themselves. Spectral. Some were naked to the waist.Many of them had sores on their faces. None had shoes. He could see the structures of them through their skin. The bony residue of their lives. — Colum McCann

The first thing I learned that day was this: what you think you know about a person is only a fraction of the story. — Gavin Extence

The most difficult thing about living as a writer is precisely 'having to write.' Pretending to be a writer is easy. Living freely, reading many books, going on frequent trips, cultivating minor eccentricities ... but genuinely being a writer is difficult, because you have to write something that will convince both yourself and readers. — Kim Young-ha

She shook her head. "I don't know who the hell you are," she told the woman in the mirror. "But you look mighty cute. — Thea Harrison