Komenda Gl Wna Quotes & Sayings

Mann and Joyce are very different, and yet their fiction often appeals to the same people: Harry Levin taught a famous course on Joyce, Proust, and Mann, and Joseph Campbell singled out Joyce and Mann as special favorites. To see them as offering "possibilities for living", as I do, isn't to identify any distinctive commonality. After all, many great authors would fall under that rubric. — Philip Kitcher

Anyhow, the older I get, the less impressed I become with originality. These days, I'm far more moved by authenticity. Attempts at originality can often feel forced and precious, but authenticity has quiet resonance that never fails to stir me. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Truth may be stranger than fiction, goes the old saw, but it is never as strange as lies. — John Hodgman

That first bass I had was an Eko, a very old thing with a thin neck, I had that for quite a while. — John Deacon

A weak but steady throb lay beneath Kev's searching fingertips. Win's heartbeat ... the pulse that sustained his universe. — Lisa Kleypas

It's not facts that hurt people, it's their attitude towards facts. — Gwethalyn Graham

The wise man is astonished by anything. — Andre Gide

When you've been struck by lightning as many times as I have, you start to expect the worst pretty much all the time. — Jennifer Bosworth

To me all palaces are preposterous, a tasteless, dreary expression of ostentation. — Charlie Chaplin

How do you keep your emotions so under control, Nicolas? Even when you're doing things that have to bother you?" She glanced up at him to make certain her question hadn't upset him.

"I don't do anything unless I believe it is necessary. If it's necessary then there's no reason for me to be bothered by it. The universe has a natural order. I do my best to flow with it and not try to control things outside of myself. The truth is, control is a myth. You can't control another person or even an event. You can only control yourself. So that's what I do. — Christine Feehan

The Steinway piano - with its beauty and power - is the perfect medium for expressing the performer's art, drama and poetry. — Van Cliburn

And when you were a silent word upon Life's quivering lips, I too was there, another silent word. Then life uttered us and we came down the years throbbing with memories of yesterday and with longing for tomorrow, for yesterday was death conquered and tomorrow was birth pursued. — Kahlil Gibran