La Balise Quotes & Sayings

Archetypes, in spite of their conservative nature, are not static but in a continuous dramatic flux. Thus the self as a monad or continuous unit would be dead. But it lives inasmuch as it splits and unites again. There is no energy without opposites! — Carl Jung

Readers came and went, only the books stayed forever. — Martin Edwards

With episodic, kind of one-hour directing, they always have guest directors come in, so they don't have the same person week after week. You get a break. — Melanie Mayron

He was an astronaut without a suit, but he was still breathing. — John Corey Whaley

Granny sat down on the step and stared off into the trees. That girl right there, she was my only child. I have lost two husbands, one by death, the other by divorce, and I have lost my parents and my brothers and sisters. But nothing ever pierced me to the core like that little girl's dying. I know it wasn't your daddy's fault. I know I messed up by filling a report to Social Services. Is that what you want to here? Is that what it takes for you not to be mad at me? — Frances O'Roark Dowell

I never sat down and decided to make work about life and death. It just all comes out of my head like water pouring out of a jug. — David Shrigley

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial. — Ross Perot

came to eat the corn too, so in a short time there — L. Frank Baum

You've mistaken the stars reflected on the surface of the lake at night for the heavens. — Andrzej Sapkowski

I would like to say that your beauty made it difficult to breathe. — Waylon H. Lewis

It is a shocking trick for a young person to be always lolling upon a sofa. — Jane Austen

It also bugs me when I hear about "Angelina's adopted son" or "Rosie's adopted children"
as if that word will always separate them instead of binding them together. Angelina's son and Rosie's kids and I sould get a regular apostrophe-plus-s like everybody else. — Kristin Chenoweth

It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

To our enemies all over the world who plan America's demise, please take my advice. Give up now. No matter what, you will lose. You will lose it all. — Henry Rollins