Jeremiah Valeska Quotes & Sayings

So, now I've been to see a drug counselor who told me I need to lay off the drugs and talk about my feelings, and a shrink who heard what I had to say and immediately put me on drugs. — Libba Bray

You can't control other people's feelings. All you can do is put yourself out there and hope she's going to feel the same way. — Helena Hunting

It's difficult to speak with beautiful people. No matter how hard you try to pretend otherwise, you still want them to like you. — Douglas Coupland

For me, the creation of a photograph is experienced as a heightened emotional response, most akin to poetry and music, each image the culmination of a compelling impulse I cannot deny. Whether working with a human figure or a still life, I am deeply aware of my spiritual connection with it. In my life, as in my work, I am motivated by a great yearning for balance and harmony beyond the realm of human experience, reaching for the essence of oneness with the Universe. — Ruth Bernhard

The English were unpleasant in their own very English way. It was as if they lived at the top of the world, and naturally looked down on everyone else; 'looked down' in the sense that everyone was clearly beneath them so what else could they do? No spite or guilt, just... 'Why doesn't everyone else try harder?' There was a hint of warmth to their contempt that I found especially deplorable. — Otaro Maijo

Is it not easy to conceive the World in your Mind? To think the Heavens fair? The Sun Glorious? The Earth fruitful? The Air Pleasant? The Sea Profitable? And the Giver bountiful? Yet these are the things which it is difficult to retain. For could we always be sensible of their use and value, we should be always delighted with their wealth and glory. — Thomas Traherne

Every time you compete, try harder to improve on your last performance. Give nothing short of your very best effort. — Elgin Baylor

But I am letting myself be carried away by reveries which I must now put aside. Enough of these phantasies. — Jules Verne

Coraline had watched all the videos. She was bored with her toys, and she'd read all her books. — Anonymous