Faye Abdellah Quotes & Sayings

To become completely aware is the journey of enlightenment. There is pain in it and suffering. But you already have those things so it doesn't really matter. — Frederick Lenz

Well, I have no problem with 3-D but I don't think it's necessarily a blanket requirement for every film. — Andrew Stanton

Busyness is now the social norm that people feel they must conform to, Burnett says, or risk being outcasts. — Brigid Schulte

Zane looked down at him and yanked away the pillow and then all the covers. "Ty, I mean it. Do not go to sleep," he said firmly.
"Nap nazi," Ty accused miserably. — Abigail Roux

Conformity is one of the nihilistic temptations of rebellion which dominate a large part of our intellectual history. It demonstrates how the rebel who takes to action is tempted to succumb, if he forgets his origins, to the most absolute conformity. And so it explains the twentieth century. Lautreamont, who is usually hailed as the bard of pure rebellion, on the contrary proclaims the advent of the taste for intellectual servitude which flourishes in the contemporary world. — Albert Camus

The rules have changed. True power is held by the person who possesses the largest bookshelf, not gun cabinet or wallet. — Anthony J. D'Angelo

Cancer affects so many people, and even if it hasn't affected someone in your family then you know someone who has had it. — Mollie King

A Long Way from Chicago is the funniest book I have read in a while. You will enjoy the antics of Grandma and the love and dismay her grandchildren feel for her — Robert Newton Peck

In 1989 I came to New York to go to the School of Visual Arts. Then, after two years, I switched over to the New School for Social Research and did cultural anthropology in the graduate school there. — Aleksandra Mir

If I can't write it would be as if I died. — Chris Cleave

It is commonplace to talk as if the world "has" meaning, to ask what "is" the meaning of a phrase, a gesture, a painting, a contract. Yet when thought about, it is clear that events are devoid of meaning until someone assigns it to them. — Dean C. Barnlund

If you want to demoralize somebody's spirit, you take away their hope. — Erica Durance

I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball. — Pete Rose