Langella Painting Quotes & Sayings

What you're doing is not important. What is really important is the state of mind from which you do it. Performance — Marina Abramovic

I shall never be a dangerous woman; I can make men love, but I cannot make them suffer. It would be much better the other way about. I have seen women able to make men suffer who could not make them love. The more they suffered the more they hung around for a showdown. In the end they did better than I, for it is strange what people will do to be able to suffer and say to themselves, in the night, I have suffered, I have lived indeed. — Christina Stead

That's what living in their world is-a big lie. An illusion where everyone looks the other way and pretends that nothing unpleasant exists at all, no goblins of the dark, no ghosts of the soul. — Libba Bray

The words that come out of our mouths do not vanish but are perpetually stored in infinite space, and they will come back to us in due time. — Elif Shafak

My mother's families were Mennonites or Anabaptists that came to Minnesota from Russia. They were actually moving around Europe doing diking and lowland reclamation work, and they moved into Minnesota. — Phil Jackson

It's not what you go through that makes you strong: it is how you handle the situation that gives you strength. — Tanya R. Liverman

I think that lion females are really lesbians and the males are used strictly for their sperm — Shelly Laurenston

What matters here are the works - finally without them his life would be uninteresting. What matters, that is, are the astonishing things that he left behind. If we can get the life in relation to the works, then it can take off. — Stephen Greenblatt

I was sorry he had not a cat, or a young dog, or better still, an old dog. But all he had to offer in the way of dumb companions was a pink and grey parrot. He used to try and teach it to say, Nihil in intellectu, etc. These first three words the bird managed well enough, but the celebrated restriction was too much for it, all you heard was a series of squawks. — Samuel Beckett

This is your dividing line, by the way, between child and nonchild - when the first trouble happens that Mama can't fix. — Peg Bracken

Just by being private, the culture will change. We won't be forced to make decisions that are 90 days in relevance. — Sam Zell

Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty. — Ellen Glasgow

I loathed school. I don't have an academic mind, and besides I was so bored by my teachers! How teachers can take a child's inventiveness and say yes, yes, in that pontifical way of theirs, and smother everything! — John Hurt

The courage of husbands is directly proportionate to the proximity of the wife. — Steven Erikson

Once your poems are completed, you send them into the world. You don't write for a coterie of other writers - you write for other human beings. — Edward Hirsch