J Senasiat Quotes & Sayings

You want to feel that your reader does identify with the characters so that there's a real entry into the story - that some quality speaks to the individual. — Jill McCorkle

On Monday, when the sun is hot, I wonder to myself a lot. Now is it true, or is it not, that what is which and which is what? — Archibald Alexander Hodge

A human being is only interesting if he's in contact with himself. — Barbra Streisand

For beauty there must be austerity and a total abandonment, and there cannot be abandonment if there is any sense of ambition expressing itself as an achievement. When there is austerity, there is simplicity, and only the mind that is simple can abandon itself, and out of this abandonment comes love. Such a state is beauty. But of that we are totally unaware. Our civilization, our culture, is based on arrogance, on the sense of achievement, and in society we are at each other's throats, violently competing to achieve, to acquire, to dominate, to become somebody. These are obvious psychological facts. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

[On the music of Richard Strauss:] Too many notes! — Nadia Boulanger

We all need that extra friend outside of our immediate family to talk about that extra stuff you wouldn't normally talk to your parents about. — Bethany Hamilton

I want to use my position of leadership to help move along at a faster pace what I believe and know the Obama administration wants to do around the urgency of climate change. — Kamala Harris

The day is declining through the white afternoon to the long blue spring evening. He drives past a corner where someone is practicing on a trumpet — John Updike

They were full of light, of fire and starlight and sunshine. They over-flowed with it as they snapped the final tether on the king's power and cleaved his darkness away, burning it up until it was nothing. — Sarah J. Maas

I'm putting my life at risk, literally! And if I slipped ... You never know. And I think about it. I think about my family and I'm like, wow, this is like being a police officer or something, in war or something. — Kanye West

With the aid of these active experimental sciences man becomes an inventor of phenomena, a real foreman of creation; and under this head we cannot set limits to the power that he may gain over nature through future progress of the experimental sciences. — Claude Bernard