Joyce Chen Quotes & Sayings

When unrequited love is the most expensive thing on the menu, sometimes you settle for the daily special. — Miranda Kenneally

I tend to tell stories that have a lot of momentum; it's not like 'and then months later ... ' I like things where the momentum of one action rolls into the next one so everything is the sum of that. — Joss Whedon

Isabelle.
It was always Isabelle. — Cassandra Clare

When you forgive, you are freed from some of the feelings of disapproval and it can contribute to lessening your negative thoughts. — Stephen Richards

Long quaffing maketh a short lyfe. — John Lyly

The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe in blood for centuries.
[Letter objecting to the use of government land for churches, 1803] — James Madison

It would be very nice if there were a God who created the world and was a benevolent providence, and if there were a moral order in the universe and an after-life; but it is a very striking fact that all this is exactly as we are bound to wish it to be. — Sigmund Freud

Science is the best thing humans beings have ever come up with. And if it isn't, science will fix it. — Bill Nye

Get through the agony and anger, the pain and strife, and take the necessary steps to try to change my life. — Ludacris

I had drunk so deeply of grief and innocently gambled so hard with fate and irony that a special kind of vision was gathering in my eyes, not entirely clear just yet. This was the same look people saw in your eyes when you have died for beauty and come to live accepting nature as life with no promise of paradise, and mad at people who couldn't see that. — Martin Prechtel

Before enlightenment, I used to be depressed; after enlightenment, I continue to be depressed. — Anthony De Mello

One should not hurt others even by words. One must not speak an unpleasant truth unnecessarily. — Sarada Devi

The Senior Moment has become the Google moment, and it has a much nicer, hipper, younger, more contemporary sound, doesn't it? By handling the obligations of the search mechanism, you almost prove you can keep up. — Nora Ephron

Okay, I said, what's so hot about playing the piano?
She told me that the most important thing was to establish the tenderness right off the bat, or at least close to the top of the piece, just a hint of it, a whisper, but a deep whisper because the tension will mount, the excitement and the drama will build - I was writing it down as fast as I could - and when the action rises the audience might remember the earlier moment of tenderness, and remembering will make them long to return to infancy, to safety, to pure love, then you might move away from that, put the violence and agony of life into every note, building, building still, until there is an important decision to make: return to tenderness, even briefly, glancingly, or continue on with the truth, the violence, the pain, the tragedy, to the very end. — Miriam Toews