Fitchef Quotes & Sayings

There's such a pressure on women that we put on ourselves and everyone else puts on us to look unrealistic and everything, but you just can't compare yourself to people in magazines. — Kate Beckinsale

There is a danger there - a very real danger to humanity. Consider, Watson, that the material, the sensual, the worldly would all prolong their worthless lives. The spiritual would not avoid the call to something higher. It would be the survival of the least fit. What sort of cesspool may not our poor world become? — Arthur Conan Doyle

I understand, as the young, attractive woman in film, that there's always going to be people seeking out extra salacious things for you to do. — Katharine Isabelle

One mustn't look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us. — Gustave Flaubert

Continuous present is all we have, and stream of consciousness - which in a novel is arguably just as artificial as the stilted dialogue that you get in most conventional novels. They're all stratagems to try to get closer to the texture of lived life. — Will Self

Oh, horrible vultureism of earth! from which not the mightiest whale is free. — Herman Melville

The sword wears out its sheath, as it is sometimes said. That is my story. My passions have made me live, and my passions have killed me. What passions, it may be asked. Trifles, the most childish things in the world. Yet they affected me as much as if the possessions of Helen, or the throne of the Universe, had been at stake. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I love the sport but it's definitely taken a toll on me. The first two years after I retired I was in pain and couldn't even sit in a chair for 2 years. 2 years! You want a sport that takes care of you the way you take care of the sport. — Eric Dickerson