Hvitur Quotes & Sayings

One minute you're bleeding. The next minute you're hemorrhaging. The next minute you're painting the Mona Lisa. — Mac O'Grady

This was the fundamental problem with rockets - and no one had ever discovered any alternative for deep-space propulsion. It was just as difficult to lose speed as to acquire it, and carrying the necessary propellant for deceleration did not merely double the difficulty of a mission; it squared it. — Arthur C. Clarke

Missing someone has to be one of the worst human emotions. All the other feelings like anger and fear and horror get some much more airplay, as if their intensity gives them more value, but whereas those emotions come in violent bursts and are gone again, the gnawing ache of loss has to be simply endured. It's like background noise, it's always there, it never goes away. You just have to try to block it out, distract yourself, hope that tomorrow the hole they left behind has grown a little smaller. — Alexandra Potter

He IS just a normal boy. — Molly Looby

Even when you have conquered him, do not adopt his vice. — George Orwell

If a woman stands in a kitchen rubbing her eyes and pouring coffee with no one there to see her, does she exist? I — Marya Hornbacher

purple tongue, and that the whitish hair that — Isabel Allende

Everyone who shoots dance sequences does it in a different way. Everyone who shoots fight sequences does it in a different way. — Jon M. Chu

You've flowers in you hair," she said. Tender amusement, instead of distaste, threaded her voice.

"That's because they're growing out of my head. — Grace Draven

He moved in a world of chaos of self, fearful and astonished to be here, right here, alive in a pine-paneled bedroom. — Michael Cunningham

In 1829 Rossini was at an age which has often proven critical in the lives of musicians, painters and writers. Lapses into silence far more complete than Rossini's, creative failures, suicides, and unanticipated deaths have been common in the middle to late 30s. As Charles Rosen has noted, 'It is the age when the most fluent composer begins to lose the ease of inspiration he once possessed, when even Mozart had to make sketches and to revise'. — Richard Osborne

Generations of women have sacrificed their lives to become their mothers. But we do not have that luxury any more. The world has changed too much to let us have the lives our mothers had. And we can no longer afford the guilt we feel at not being our mothers. We cannot afford any guilt that pulls us back to the past. We have to grow up, whether we want to or not. We have to stop blaming men and mothers and seize every second of our lives with passion. We can no longer afford to waste our creativity. We cannot afford spiritual laziness. — Erica Jong

The more you travel the more you realise that you must travel even more! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Middle-class-led reform movements, from the Progressive Era to the War on Poverty, have been marred by an elitist distance from the would-be beneficiaries of reform. — Barbara Ehrenreich

He lived in chambers that had once belonged to his deceased partner. They were a gloomy suite of rooms, in a lowering pile of building up a yard, where it had so little business to be, that one could scarcely help fancying it must have run there when it was a young house, playing at hide-and-seek with other houses, and forgotten the way out again. — Charles Dickens