Kaupunkilanka Quotes & Sayings

More than anything, acting helped me discover who I'm not. I've learned that I'm a girly girl, but not a prissy girl. — Debby Ryan

There's a Buddhist story about the guy who wants to be enlightened, and then he gets a cow and a wife and a child, and all these things get in the way of his enlightenment. So, yeah, I have no chance of being enlightened. — Larkin Grimm

What really happens is that the story-maker proves a successful 'sub-creator'. He makes a Secondary World which your mind can enter. Inside it, what he relates is 'true': it accords with the laws of that world. You therefore believe it, while you are, as it were, inside. The moment disbelief arises, the spell is broken; the magic, or rather art, has failed. You are then out in the Primary World again, looking at the little abortive Secondary World from outside. — J.R.R. Tolkien

If you're going to have 19 children, you should supervise them well. — Keith Ablow

The women doing comedy do not even think of themselves as 'female' comedians. — Jen Kirkman

To ease the pain, erase the anger. — Anthony Liccione

And once begun, change cannot be reversed. — Michael Scott

It was an exceptional sensation, reading by spiderlight. — Jenny Nimmo

Growing up human is uniquely a matter of social relations rather than biology. What we learn from connections within the family takes the place of instincts that program the behavior of animals; which raises the question, how good are these connections? — Elizabeth Janeway

Getting a new version of the answer every day, Artyom was unable to compel himself to believe what was true, because the next day another, no less precise and comprehensive one, might arise. Whom should he believe? And in what? ... Any faith served man only as a crutch supporting him. ... He understood why man needs this support. Without it, life would have become empty, like an abandoned tunnel. — Dmitry Glukhovsky

Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think getting old is the way to go. — Kate Beckinsale

Ah, yes, the sea is still and deep, All things within its bosom sleep! A single step, and all is o'er, A plunge, a bubble, and no more. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

- I really prefer books. No matter how bad a book is, it's unique, but people are all so ordinary.
- I think we really like books that make us hate ourselves. — William Gaddis