Exercitationes Chapter Quotes & Sayings

Fear is the ultimate cause of failure and disappointment. — Emmet Fox

Beauty is frightening," they will tell you -

Lazily you will arrange

A Spanish shawl on your shoulders,

A red rose in your hair.


"Beauty is simple," they will tell you -

Clumsily with a motley shawl

You will cover a child up,

A red rose on the floor.


But, distractedly heeding

All the words sounding around you,

Sadly lost in thought

You will say about yourself:


'I am neither frightening nor simple;

I am not so frightening, that I would simply

Kill; I am not so simple

That I do not know how frightening life is.'

("For Anna Akhmatova") — Alexander Blok

This sounds about as romantic as cold oatmeal. — Trinity Faegen

Coming from the theater, I love the adrenalin rush from working on 'NCIS.' You get home and you're exhausted, but you feel like you've really worked. — Cote De Pablo

F me," I say loudly and everyone looks at me.
"Can I help you?" the tour guide asks in an icy tone.
I shake my head, noticing Callie is staring at me. "Sorry man, I thought a bee landed on me. — Jessica Sorensen

Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art - or almost the only stuff. — D.H. Lawrence

People don't change. If anything, you get more set in your ways as you get older, not less — Sarah Dessen