Kurshila Martini Quotes & Sayings

There is no theoretical study of motherhood. You know, before I became a mother, I did play a mother, but I was like - I was more thinking of my own mother. I was doing my mother. — Joan Chen

If one felt successful, there'd be so little incentive to be successful. — Alain De Botton

These days, it takes only seconds - seconds - for a picture, a photo, to suddenly become an international headline. — Leon Panetta

For, like, 98 percent of my life, I'm not nervous. But as soon as I'm nervous, I start shaking or something, and I lose my cool. — Shameik Moore

Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it — Ernest Holmes

When the palace is magnificent, the fields are filled with weeds, and the granaries are empty. — Laozi

Up and down," Meera would sigh sometimes as they walked, "then down and up. Then up and down again. I hate these stupid mountains of yours, Prince Bran."
"Yesterday you said you loved them."
"Oh, I do. My lord father told me about mountains, but I never saw one till now. I love them more than I can say."
Bran made a face at her. "But you just said you hated them."
"Why can't it be both?" Meera reached up to pinch his nose.
"Because they're different," he insisted. "Like night and day, or ice and fire."
"If ice can burn," said Jojen in his solemn voice, "then love and hate can mate. Mountain or marsh, it makes no matter. The land is one."
"One," his sister agreed, "but over wrinkled. — George R R Martin

Young writers often mistakenly choose a certain vein or style based on who they want to be, unconsciously trying to blot out who they actually are. You want to escape yourself. — Mary Karr

So I really began as a failed poet - although when I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by reading poetry. — Nicholson Baker

You don't have to cheat to lose your girl or your woman. You can lose her from lack of communication, attention and disrespect. It's not all about what you do, sometimes it's about what you don't do. — Chris Sain Jr.

Let us be greedy together; let us hoard. Let us hit each other with birch branches and lock each other in dungeons; let us drink each other's blood in the night and betray each other in the sun. Let us lie and lust and take hundreds of lovers; let us dance until snow melts between us. Let us steal and eat until we grow fat and roll in the pleasures of life, clutching each other for purchase. — Catherynne M Valente

If you're not ready to die, then how can you live? — Charles De Lint

deliberate practice requires that one identify certain sharply defined elements of performance that need to be improved, and then work intently on them. — Geoff Colvin

I've been loving music all my life. — Randy Savage