Koans Explained Quotes & Sayings

I love long flights. The feeling of being completely unreachable is something I savor, and the limbolike state of being, having departed but not arrived, somehow allows me to catch up with myself, to regroup and check in. — Alan Cumming

Perhaps all love had something of the ridiculous in it. — Barbara Pym

What the altar-bound of today end up buying from their numberless vendors is a dog's breakfast of bridal excess - part society wedding of the twenties, part Long Island Italian wedding of the fifties. It's The Philadelphia Story and The Wedding Singer served up together in one curious and costly buffet. — Caitlin Flanagan

I always consider Shakespeare like a huge room. I mean, you open the door, and you can go anywhere. — Campbell Scott

I always feel when you work with an artist and whenever I work with a really good photographer, I try to give him or her their own artistic freedom because that's the way you get the best work or at least the most interesting work. — Helen Mirren

If you don't pay attention to the things that have your attention, you'll give them more attention than they deserve. — David Allen

Going in and occupying Iraq, thus unilaterally exceeding the United Nations' mandate, would have destroyed the precedent of international response to aggression that we hoped to establish. Had we gone the invasion route, the United States could conceivably still be an occupying power in a bitterly hostile land. — George H. W. Bush

So much of control is not authoritative action but mindful waiting. — Cameron Conaway

Sometimes, as much as writing saves one's own life, you cannot imagine how it will save another's. This is another reason why it is important to do the work, over and over again. It is food, the kind a soul needs. — Lilith Saintcrow

Burning sage changes the energy for the home, so if you've had an argument or some form of stress, it removes negative energies. — Karen Rose