Impermeability Def Quotes & Sayings

To get any reason out of the mass of incongruity we call human life, we have to transcend our reason, but we must do it scientifically, slowly, by regular practice, and we must cast off all superstition. — Swami Vivekananda

What helps writers, and ultimately, obviously, helps the actors - who should serve the words that the writer puts on the page - is if the character has damages, because then the writers can cultivate and excavate, like a dentist going into a tooth. — John C. McGinley

Love, like light, is a thing that is enacted better than defined: we know it afterward by the traces it leaves on paper. — Adam Gopnik

Conventions are like coins, an easy way of dealing with the commerce of relations. — Freya Stark

Excellence is not an accomplishment. It is a spirit, a never-ending process. — Lawrence M. Miller

And I became fixated, too, upon Katharine Hepburn's famous Fred and Ginger theory: He gives her class, she gives him sex. Was this a general rule? Did all friendships - all relations - involve this discreet and mysterious exchange of qualities, this exchange of power? — Zadie Smith

Is it impossible to imagine Americans sneaking into Mexico en masse, seeking regular employment and a better way of life? — Bill Hicks

It's a race between your foolishness and your allotted days. Good luck. — Mark Slouka

This disease leaves people bedridden. I've gone through phases where I couldn't roll over in bed. I couldn't speak. To have it called 'fatigue' is a gross misnomer. — Laura Hillenbrand

Fragile things become undone at a frightening speed. — Deb Caletti