Kehlmann Glenn Quotes & Sayings

I hated improvisation because in my early days as an actor, improvisation meant somebody had just come down from Oxford and they were doing a play above a pub in Kentish Town, and the biggest ego would win. — Peter Capaldi

There is a level of grief so deep that it stops resembling grief at all. The pain becomes so severe that the body can no longer feel it. The grief cauterizes itself, scars over, prevents inflated feeling. Such numbness is a kind of mercy. — Elizabeth Gilbert

If you come from money and you become an addict, you go to the Betty Ford Clinic, you get treatment. If you're living on the street and you're an addict, it's much harder to find your way out. — Jess Walter

I don't think that eating bones is necessarily gruesome unless you're a vegetarian. — Greg Van Eekhout

Back then every small town had a gym, and if itseated more than 2,000 then we'd be interested in playing in it. — Bob Cousy

Safe and sound through all the night. All you are and all you see hold you through dark into light. — Nora Roberts

The BEST training program in the entire world will be a DISMAL FAILURE if people fail to hold up their end of the deal. The success of ANY training program is ultimately the trainee's responsibility. — Mark Rippetoe

I'm enjoying my years, I'm enjoying my life, I'm enjoying my family. I'm just happy - a happy person. — Sharon Stone

I grew up in kind of the last generation of Canadians who thought things that were happening in Britain were more important, almost, than what was happening in Canada. And my mother was fervently of that opinion. — Robert MacNeil

I stopped feeling like I didn't belong anywhere, and realized that I actually belonged anywhere I wanted to be. — Sophia Amoruso

The principle of vis inertiae ( ... ) seems to be identical in physics and metaphysics. It is not more true in the former, that a large body is with more difficulty set in motion than a smaller one, and that its subsequent momentum is commensurate with this difficulty, than it is, in the latter, that intellects of the vaster capacity, while more forcible, more constant, and more eventful in their movements than those of inferior grade, are yet the less readily moved, and more embarrassed, and full of hesitation in the first few steps of their progress — Edgar Allan Poe

Some days I tell myself that my mission is to say something about the art and sometimes the bliss of limitation. And the legibility of landscape. Other days are more dismal. As if I were queueing in the rain outside confessional literature's nudist colony, mirrors everywhere, blue with cold. — Fredrik Sjoberg

It is easier to list modes of behaviour that are required or forbidden than to set reason to work; but once the mind has been stored with useful knowledge and strengthened by being used, the regulation of the behaviour may safely be left to its guidance without the aid of formal rules. — Mary Wollstonecraft