Largos Hotel Quotes & Sayings

The major problem with the notion of transformation is that it forever hangs on to some form of self and never lets it go. It perpetuates the notion that self gets better and better, more and more divine, when in truth, the divine increases in proportion as the self decreases or falls away. The notion of a divinized self only increases or inflates the self; for those who buy into this notion, the journey may well end in total disillusionment. Offhand — Bernadette Roberts

I may be an idiot," he said gravely, "but I would never eat a hamburger cooked by a clown. — Anthony Marra

I simply cannot stand by and watch a right guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States come under attack from those who either can't understand it, don't like the sound of it, or find themselves too philosophically squeamish to see why it remains the first among equals: Because it is the right we turn to when all else fails. That's why the Second Amendment is America's first freedom. — Charlton Heston

My Mother set me on the right track, Marty Robbins made me want to write songs, and Jesus Christ did the rest. — Bernie Taupin

If it hasn't changed you, it's not love. — Pratik Akkawar

The essence of dramatic tragedy is not unhappiness. It resides in the solemnity of the remorseless working of things. — Alfred North Whitehead

When you have to work with and exist amongst cynical, burned-out personnel on a set, it doesn't matter what you're shooting or how much you're being paid - it's not worth it. — Henry Rollins

Onstage is the one time in my day that I can let it all out. — Brittany Howard

I stay off the booze for a whole 12 weeks before a fight, it can be tough! — Michael Bisping

The first act by virtue of which the State really constitutes itself the representative of the whole of societythe taking possession of the means of production in the name of societythis is, at the same time, its last independent act as a State. State interference in social relations becomes, in one domain after another, superfluous, and then dies out of itself; the government of persons is replaced by the administration of things, and by the conduct of processes of production. The State is not abolished. It dies out. — Friedrich Engels

The heavens opened for the sunset to-night. When I had thought the day folded and sealed, came a burst of heavenly bright petals. — Katherine Mansfield

Everyone thinks I have a death wish, you know? But I don't want to die - dying is easy. No, I want to live, but getting close to death is the only way to feel alive. And once you do, it makes you realize that everything you were actually doing before wasn't actually living. It was just making do. Call me crazy, but I think we do the best living when the stakes are high. — V.E Schwab

Fear is not one of my attributes. — Bernie Mac