Erryn Ember Quotes & Sayings

There's power in looking silly and not caring that you do. — Amy Poehler

The impeccable watchmaker geared the noble self to suffer. The ineluctable part of being human is perpetual sorrow, grief, and misery. Suffering is part of living. Life begins joyously and regretfully ends in tragedy. The cold realities of the world triumphantly crush each one of us. Between birth and death is comedic conjugation, the haunting prelude to the end of the self. — Kilroy J. Oldster

Evil is a disease; and worry over disease is itself an additional form of disease, which only adds to the original complaint. — William James

I sat helpless to prevent the closing of that chapter of idyllic love, dreading the return of the young man whose ineffable happiness was only to be the measure of his fall. I — Willa Cather

Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred. — Honore De Balzac

Now, leave."
All three boys slumped forward. Percy fell face-first into his pizza.
"Percy!" Annabeth grabbed him. — Rick Riordan

I do triage on everything that comes through the door, and if it's not something we need (now, for real-not maybe someday) or something that deserves to be saved for posterity, it's discarded. I stop before I let myself drop something into a drawer or set it down on the piano. 'Where does it belong?' I think. If I don't have a place for it, I make a place. — Michelle Herman

When I wrote 'The Secret Life of Bees,' I was writing about civil rights. — Sue Monk Kidd

I think every actor brings something personal to a role, right? — Natalie Dormer

Above all, do not talk yourself out of good ideas by trying to expound them at haphazard meetings. — Jacques Barzun

I'm not a writer, inherently. Most of the writers I've met have stories they need to tell. I don't have that. I'm an interpreter. I like getting a script, seeing a character and thinking, "Oh, wow, I know what I can do with that." — Mark Strong

The nurses' job is emotional and distressing. Their day-to-day work is dealing with people withering and falling to pieces. So black humour is essential for them cope with that. It's just a consequence of their environment. — Peter Capaldi

I'm married, honey. My social life consists of work, church, taxiing the kids around and trying to schedule sex with my husband at least once a month. — Marilyn Pappano

Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin. — Lord Acton