Fedrelands Quotes & Sayings

Until recently the locus of sexual fantasy was peopled with images actually glimpsed or were sensations actually felt, or private imaginings taken from suggestions in the real world, a dream well where weightless images from it floated, transformed by imagination. It prepared children, with these hints and traces of other people's bodies, to become adults and enter the landscape of adult sexuality and meet the lover face to face. Lucky men and women are able to keep a pathway clear to that dream well, peopling it with scenes and images that meet them as they get older, created with their own bodies mingling with other bodies; they choose a lover because of a smell from a coat, a way of walking, the shape of a lip, belong in their imagined interior and resonate back in time deep into the bones that recall childhood and early adolescent imagination. — Naomi Wolf

Acting's all about stepping out of the box, so I don't want to go to work every day and play Cassie Scerbo at all. — Cassie Scerbo

If we were made to watch a doctor pull off the little baby's legs and arms one by one and place them on the table like a dentist removing cotton from your mouth - if all Americans were made to see what it really is, the pro-life goal of abortion being unthinkable (not just illegal) would be much nearer. — John Piper

How can a parliamentarian or a leader in a country say, on the one hand, that we're going to support Greece but at the same time say that Greeks are lazy? — George Papandreou

For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason. — Quintilian

It was awkward, revisiting a world you have never seen before: like coming home, after a long journey, to someone else's house. — Umberto Eco

Your ego can become an obstacle to your work. If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity. — Marina Abramovic

Nothing is given to man on earth - struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible - the hero is the man who lets no obstacle prevent him from pursuing the values he has chosen. — Andrew Bernstein

Sometimes being hopeful needs to be a very deliberate act. — Joan Bauer

Wise men listen and laugh, while fools talk. — Curtis Jackson

I involve myself in an organisation called Tear Fund. — Cliff Richard