Fricotes Quotes & Sayings

My formula is Amor fati: ... not only to bear up under every necessity, but to love it. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Turn bad thoughts into concrete so you can build a strong foundation. — Antonia Perdu

At her tone, at once intimate and formal, a terrible sadness came over me, and when we looked at each other it seemed that the whole past was redefined and brought into focus by this moment, clear as glass, a complexity of stillness that was rainy afternoons in spring, a dark chair in the hallway, the light-as-air touch of her hand on the back of my head. "I'm — Donna Tartt

I always say to young people when they ask me how I work, I always say to them, the only time you've ever going to do something good is if you have a good client. And by good I mean all kinds of things. — Lawrence Halprin

A red rose peeping through a white? Or else a cherry (double graced) Within a lily? Centre placed? Or ever marked the pretty beam, A strawberry shows, half drowned in cream? Or seen rich rubies blushing through A pure smooth pearl, and orient too? So like to this, nay all the rest, Is each neat niplet of her breast. — Ovid

This was to me a far more terrible loss than the two that I had suffered before. For though, Lord help me, I had travelled far enough from all paths of decent or godly living, yet there was in me, though I myself write it, a certain goodness of heart which, when I was sober (or sick) made me very sorry of all that I had done before the fit came on me. And this I lost wholly: having in place thereof another deadly coldness at the heart. I am not, as I have before said, ready with my pen, so I fear that what I have just written may not be readily understood. — Rudyard Kipling

Sound consists of an undulating motion of the air. — Robert Boyle

There are more differences between poor people than between middle-class people. — Rita Mae Brown

A powerful portfolio of physiological and behavioural evidence now exists to support the case that fish feel pain and that this feeling matters. In the face of such evidence, any argument to the contrary based on the claim that fish 'do not have the right sort of brain' can no longer be called scientific. It is just obstinate. — John Webster

I knew my purpose well and clear: to show how Nature behaves without cluttering its beauty with abtruse mathematics. — Julius Sumner Miller

The path to holiness lies through questioning everything. — M. Scott Peck

The internet connects us all and provides this fabulous fact-checking mechanism, and yet at the same time, the power of lies is conveyed much more efficiently now because they're accepted so fast. — Alex Gibney

For 15 years I did two to three movies a year, sometimes four. I didn't get to spend time building my personal life. — Steve Guttenberg

She thinks I'm psycho cause I like to rhyme her name with things. — Taylor Swift

In these times - where social appearance is more important than spiritual substance - what has become our longing to change is really the unconscious desire to control not just the shape of our bodies (according to prevailing values) but to dominate our environment as well, regardless of the cost. — Guy Finley