Heartwork Quotes & Sayings

How are we to account for the strange human craving for the pleasure of feeling afraid which is so much involved in our love of ghost stories? — Virginia Woolf

You're the voice
of reason. You think of the things we forget about. — Kendare Blake

Europe's nations should be guided towards the superstate without their people understanding what is happening. This can be accomplished by successive steps, each disguised as having an economic purpose, but which will eventually and irreversibly lead to federation. — Jean Monnet

Westerners who go native with Chinese ideas are called 'eggs' - outside white, inside yellow -, and are often systematically excluded from their expat community's activities, let alone the financial support system. — Thorsten J. Pattberg

The Sugar Frosted Nutsack is dizzyingly brilliant. Mark Leyner is a hyperkinetic shaman, who flies the banner of rum and candy and writes like a one-eyed feral bandit. His new book is supremely original, delirious and synapse-shattering. — John Cusack

From the time we're born, our brothers and sisters are our collaborators and coconspirators, our role models and our cautionary tales, — Jeffrey Kluger

Now for some heartwork. — Rainer Maria Rilke

It's still weird seeing you with a guy," Vick said. "Not that I'm against two wieners tucking into each other's buns. To each his own. — Lynn Hagen

Moon's gravitational pull means that earth doesn't wobble too much. Scientists call it obliquity. The moon holds us fast. — Jeanette Winterson

He said he was not afraid because years before a witch doctor gave him a charm against evil spirits.
"Let me see that charm," I asked.
"It's words," he said. "It's a word charm."
"Can you say them to me?"
"Sure," he said and he droned, "In nomine Patris et Filli et Spiritus Sancti."
"What does it mean?"
He raised his shoulder. "I don't know," he said.
"It's a charm against evil spirits so I am not afraid of them."
I've dredged this conversation out of a strange-sounding Spanish but there is no doubt one of his charm, and it worked for him. — John Steinbeck

Your mind must become one, do not try to understand with your ears but with your heart. Indeed, not with your heart but with your soul. — Zhuangzi

If it's possible to have a reading hangover, I have one. — Erika Swyler

Always, there was a tiny part of her that wanted to kill any man she knew. On principle. — Gail Carriger

Someone that you have deprived of everything is no longer in your power. He is once again entirely free. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

No matter how much you sit there twiddling, going, 'We're all doomed', at the end of the day people will always want to hear you play 'Creep'. Get over it. — Noel Gallagher

The more motivation, the more passion you have behind it ... There's nothing that can stop you. — Jake Ellenberger