Lgfa Quotes & Sayings

It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death. — Thomas Mann

Elodin looked at me. "What a remarkably honest threat," he said. "Normally they're much more growlish and gristly than that."
"Gristly?" I asked, emphasizing the 't.' "Don't you mean grisly?"
"Both," he said. "Usually there's a lot of, 'I'll break your knees. I'll break your neck.'" He shrugged. "Makes me think of gristle, like when you're boning a chicken. — Patrick Rothfuss

For in fact what is man in nature? A Nothing in comparison with the Infinite, an All in comparison with the Nothing, a mean between nothing and everything. — Blaise Pascal

I tried to keep my eyes on his face, I really did, but I couldn't resist a peek or two at his body. — S.C. Stephens

No art can possibly comfort HER then, even though art is credited with so many things, especially an ability to offer solace. Sometimes, of course, art creates the suffering in the first place. — Elfriede Jelinek

Tree planting is always a utopian enterprise, it seems to me, a wager on a future the planter doesn't necessarily expect to witness. — Michael Pollan

I don't need to be saved. I'm the hero of my own story. — Tara Brown

You see? You're just figuring it out now, but I discovered a long time ago that the smarter you are, the more tempting it is to just let people imagine you. We move through each other's lives like ghosts, leaving behind haunting memories of people who never existed. — Robyn Schneider

Happiness is not dependent upon outer circumstance. Happiness is falling in love with everything around you, everything inside of you. — Frederick Lenz

People who go into the arts are often hurt people. Many are manic-depressive. Some have tried suicide and some have succeeded. It's just part of the game. We are people who are oversensitive. That's why we're in this business, because of our need to communicate. — Mandy Patinkin

One of the things that we must do as teachers is twirl around and around, and find out what works with the situation that we're in. Our models might not work. And that twirling, changing, is part of the empowerment. — Bell Hooks

Our belief in any particular natural law cannot have a safer basis than our unsuccessful critical attempts to refute it. — Karl Popper

I believe that everyone is a fashion insider, because it's illegal to be naked. — Kanye West

For prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted. — C.S. Lewis

They were "galvanized iron bake ovens," said Carl LaRue, commenting on Fordlandia's foibles years later. "It is incredible that anyone should build a house like that in the tropics." Another visitor described them as "midget hells, where one lies awake and sweats the first half of the night, and frequently between midnight and dawn undergoes a fierce siege of heat-provoking nightmares." They seemed to be "designed by Detroit architects who probably couldn't envision a land without snow."19 Ford managers, said the priest, "never really — Greg Grandin