Jilly Anais Friend Quotes & Sayings

When strawberries go begging, and the sleek
Blue plums lie open to the blackbird's beak,
We shall live well
we shall live very well. — Elinor Wylie

Men may have given millions of dollars and fed rats and cats, as some do in India. They say that men can take care of themselves, but the poor animals cannot ... — Swami Vivekananda

I passed out from stress? That's it?" "I believe the princess term is fainted," said Thorne. Cinder smacked him. — Marissa Meyer

To quote Archimedes once again, you must have both "a lever and a place to stand" before you can move the world. The educated and sophisticated Western person today has many levers, but almost no solid place on which to stand, with either very weak identities or terribly overstated identities. — Richard Rohr

Don't measure life against time. Measure life by the milestones you have reached. — Debasish Mridha

What shall we give her?" Trot shook her head in despair. "I've tried to think and I can't," she declared. "It's the same way with me," said Dorothy. "I know one thing that 'ud — L. Frank Baum

It wasn't a bang or a boom. It was the dampest, most corpulent eruption in the history of terminal flatulence. — Terry Pratchett

Silence had entered me.
It was like the night, and my memories - they were like stars
in that they were fixed, though of course
if one would see they are unending fires, like the fires of hell. — Louise Gluck

And that inverted Bowl we call The Sky,
Whereunder crawling coop't we live and die,
Lift not thy hands to it for help
for It
Rolls impotently on as Thou or I. — Omar Khayyam

I'm not much of a preparer. I think sometimes as an actor you need to go out and learn some skills, but in terms of preparation for understanding the character, it's all on the page, and if it's not on the page, you're in trouble. — William H. Macy

I thought that the world was a vast system of signs, a conversation between giant beings. My actions, the cricket's saw, the star's blink, were nothing but pauses and syllables, scattered phrases from that dialogue. What word could it be, of which I was only a syllable? Who speaks the word? To whom is it spoken? — Octavio Paz

Men with discrimination will be viewed as schemers; second, men with deep far-sightedness will be seen as cowards; and third, men with rough behaviour will be mistaken for real warriors. These are great errors. — Takeda Shingen

I know when an actor is giving it his/her all and when they're just phoning it in. — Ricky Schroder

It got to the point where I started hiding because I didn't want to be photographed. (On living with Robert Mapplethorpe) — Patti Smith

God's not complicated - He's really not. And He helps people in their everyday life so that they can get better in relationships, in their job situations, in getting through grief. — Victoria Osteen