Koide Bula Quotes & Sayings

It's like kids playing house: 'You play the father, I'll play the mother.' You know, you dress up, you play, they pay, you go home. It's a game - acting's a game. — Robert Duvall

There's nothing less funny than trying to force funny. — Kelly Sue DeConnick

His features were lost in masses of shaggy hair that hung on his shoulders; and his eyes, too, were like a ghostly Catherine's, with all their beauty annihilated. — Emily Bronte

I used to be that person who read two 400-page books a week. Now I carry around a book with me everywhere I go to try to remember what it feels like to feel that connection within the pages because I can't concentrate to read further than a paragraph, or remember it, for that matter. Every time I see someone engrossed in a novel, it's bittersweet, because I miss what it is like to get lost in the written word. I just want to be able to read like that again. — Unknown

Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition. — Seneca The Younger

I love math and science, and also, my mom is a doctor. I grew up not even having an awareness that women were not supposed to be good at science. — Megan Amram

She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering. — Henry James

He calmed the storm to a whisper and stilled the waves. 30 What a blessing was that stillness as he brought them safely into harbor! — Anonymous

The more basic reason is that the human being gets his original experiences of being a self out of his relatedness to other persons, and when he is alone, without other persons, he is afraid he will lose this experience of being a self. Man, the biosocial mammal, not only is dependent on other human beings such as his father and mother for his security during a long childhood; he likewise receives his consciousness of himself, which is the basis of his capacity to orient himself in life, from these early relationships. These important points we will discuss more thoroughly in a later chapter - here we wish only to point out that part of the feeling of loneliness is that man needs relations with other people in order to orient himself. — Rollo May

To invent is to discover that we know not, and not to recover or resummon that which we already know — Francis Bacon

Merin smiled. "I fought in battle and your mother bore two children. Of the two of us, I think she was the courageous one. — Catherine M. Wilson

It gets on top of me and I get frustrated. — Hugh Laurie

Independence is a political concept, not a biological concept. — Margaret J. Wheatley