Les Retrouvailles Quotes & Sayings

An expectation is a thought.It has no power or influence. — Dee Dee Artner

Speaking of metaphor, the dative construction works with a number of verbs of communication, as in Ask me no questions, I'll tell you no lies and Sing me no song, read me no rhyme. It's as if we think of ideas as things, knowing as having, communicating as sending, and language as the package. This is sometimes called the conduit metaphor, and it can be seen in dozens of expressions for thinking, saying, and teaching. We gather our ideas to put them into words, and if our verbiage is not empty or hollow, we might get these ideas across to a listener, who can unpack our words to extract their content. — Steven Pinker

But they bear the burden of being unpopular as proof of their importance - and these eminences turn the suspicion that less elevated customers are careful to disguise as courtesy into naked contempt and disdain. All the people one doesn't need right now are - for the person who will need them in a year's time - no more than air which he breathes but doesn't need to see. — Joseph Roth

I feel like there's a lot of drama in weather. It's something that's done really often in live action, so I figure, why not translate that to animation? — Kirsten Lepore

I used cartoons as diaries. I still do. They're my way of figuring out the world, what's happening to me or what I'm thinking about. — Bruce Eric Kaplan

This low-effort syndrome is often seen as a way that adolescents assert their independence from adults, but it is also a way that students with the fixed mindset protect themselves. They view the adults as saying, "Now we will measure you and see what you've got." And they are answering, "No you won't." John Holt, the great educator, says that these are the games all human beings play when others are sitting in judgment of them. — Carol S. Dweck

Unable to help himself, he offered her a smile and stared into those eyes as he tapped his mouth. "I think you missed. — J.M. Stewart

In the songs that I write, that's where I get to be really brave and outspoken. — Emily Kinney

I appreciate the response and the support of fans, of people who actually don't mind watching me on screen ... I just don't ever want to jeopardize that. — Ian Somerhalder

What compels any of us to do the things we do when deep down a part of us just wants to break free from it all? — J.A. Redmerski

I was very fortunate in having David Fincher, the director come to me. Now I've seen the finished product, I feel that every bit of the nine months we spent on the film was worth it. — Dwight Yoakam