Franz Brentano Quotes & Sayings

Advice? I don't have advice. Stop aspiring and start writing. If you're writing, you're a writer. Write like you're a goddamn death row inmate and the governor is out of the country and there's no chance for a pardon. Write like you're clinging to the edge of a cliff, white knuckles, on your last breath, and you've got just one last thing to say, like you're a bird flying over us and you can see everything, and please, for God's sake, tell us something that will save us from ourselves. Take a deep breath and tell us your deepest, darkest secret, so we can wipe our brow and know that we're not alone. Write like you have a message from the king. Or don't. Who knows, maybe you're one of the lucky ones who doesn't have to. — Alan W. Watts

What we try to do in TSAW, which is Tasha Smith Actors Workshop, is to help the actor get to the core of who they really are and how they really feel. So, we may have them do a dump, where you just basically express everything that you feel that you have not been able to express, whether it's good, bad, or ugly. — Tasha Smith

Miracles begin when we consider the possibility that there might be another way. — Marianne Williamson

I think my father, who was Chinese, basically felt if we didn't major in science, we would starve on the streets, so we all went into science unquestioningly. I kind of faked my way through physics. — Sandra Tsing Loh

Selfishness is self-absorption, self-seeking behaviour that either disregards the rights and needs of others or tramples them deliberately in favour of personal gain. — Adelyn Birch

Experts say you can't concentrate on more than one task at a time. — Marilyn Vos Savant

Put a very clever man next to a genius, his brightness will immediately turn to dullness! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

How now, spirit! Whither wander you? — William Shakespeare

Because a garden mean constantly making choices, it offers almost limitless possibilities for surprise and satisfaction. — Jane Garmey

Everyone endeavors as much as possible to make others love what he loves, and to hate what he hates ... This effort to make everyone approve what we love or hate is in truth ambition, and so we see that each person by nature desires that other persons should live according to his way of thinking ... — Baruch Spinoza

28those who have faith and whose hearts find peace in the remembrance of God - truly it is in the remembrance of God that hearts find peace - — Anonymous

Just remember, what the French say. No, probably not the French, they've got a president or something. The Brits, maybe, or the Swedes. You know what I mean?"
"No, Matthew. What do they say?"
"The king is dead, that's what they say. The king is dead. Long live the king. — Neil Gaiman

Real travel would be to see the world, for even an instant, with another's eyes — Robyn Davidson