Florinda Bolkan Quotes & Sayings

The floor of ice cream parlor bothered me. It was black-and-white checkboard tile, bigger than supermarket checkboard. If I looked only at a white square, I would be all right, but it was hard to ignore the black squares that surrounded the white ones. The contrast got under my skin. The floor meant yes, no, this, that, up, down, day, night -all the indecisions and opposites that were bad enough in life without having them spelled out for you on the floor. — Susanna Kaysen

Is this where you reveal you're secretly a serial killer and you're taking me to where you're going to bury my body in a shallow grave? — Lolita Lane

in winter's watered-down light - just — David Foster Wallace

It's easier to stay in shape if you never let yourself get out of shape in the first place. — Bill Loguidice

Lovecraft story "The Outsider. — Ray Russell

I suppose books are my real passion in life. — John Boyne

I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live. — Jonathan Safran Foer

A good seat on a horse steals away your opponent's courage and your onlooker's heart-what reason is there to attack? Sit like one who has conquered? — Friedrich Nietzsche

Be a kind person. Yes, even to jerks. Let them be a jerk. You be a kind person. — Karen Salmansohn

Hold every hour in your grasp. Lay hold of to-day's task, and you will not need to depend so much upon to-morrow's. While we are postponing, life speeds by. Nothing, Lucilius, is ours, except time. We were entrusted by nature with the ownership of this single thing, so fleeting and slippery that anyone who will can oust us from possession. — Marcus Aurelius

I have always been in a condition in which I cannot not write. — Barbara Tuchman

As the Iberian explorers made their way down the African coast - the Portuguese going around the Horn to East Asia, the Spaniards cutting west to the Americas - both powers had two main goals in mind: finding precious metals and planting sugarcane. (Oh, and spreading the word of God.) The — Tom Reiss

matter what. I loved you, Haley, and I thought — R.L. Mathewson

Without rules you can't have anything, but you don't want to just be pedantic or obsessive. The painting is finished when it's working. The overall balance is right. Balance shouldn't be confused with design. There has to be restless jostle and aggression and a bit of dynamism, not just pat-ness or settled-ness or immediate pleasing-ness. — Matthew Collings

All that we want to do away with is the miserable character of this appropriation, under which the labourer lives merely to increase capital , and allowed to live only so far as the interest to the ruling class requires it. — Karl Marx