Linksmi Palinkejimai Quotes & Sayings

Words need worlds in order to be worlds. worlds though don't need words in order to be worlds. — Mark Z. Danielewski

Being the first person to go to college that really related to me from the movie [The Butler] because being black and going to college everyone puts so much hope into you. — Lee Daniels

Why do long marriages occasionally endow their inhabitants with a rare kind of equilibrium otherwise almost unknown in human relations? My guess is that the value of the moment has at last overshadowed the long history of resentments, betrayals, and boredom. — Carolyn Heilbrun

One touch is worth ten thousand words. — Harold H. Bloomfield

If you catch yourself doing things right, everything in your life will improve - especially your relationships. That's because it's fun to be around people who like themselves. — Kenneth H. Blanchard

An actor's most important responsibility is to know lines well. — Harry Morgan

Listen. Say yes. Live in the moment. Make sure you play with people who have your back. Make big choices early and often. — Amy Poehler

Raven: The Honourable Mr Listless is gone. He declared that, what with family quarrels in the morning, and ghosts at night, he could get neither sleep nor peace; and that the agitation was too much for his nerves: though Mr Glowry assured him that the ghost was only poor Crow walking in his sleep, and that the shroud and bloody turban were a sheet and a red nightcap. — Thomas Love Peacock

Finally, the optimist's impatience with or condemnation of pessimism often has a smug macho tone to it (although males have no monopoly of it). There is a scorn for the perceived weakness of the pessimist who should instead 'grin and bear it'. This view is defective for the same reason that macho views about other kinds of suffering are defective. It is an indifference to or inappropriate denial of suffering, whether one's own or that of others. The injunction to 'look on the bright side' should be greeted with a large dose of both scepticism and cynicism. To insist that the bright side is always the right side is to put ideology before the evidence. Every cloud, to change metaphors, may have a silver lining, but it may very often be the cloud rather than the lining on which one should focus if one is to avoid being drenched by self-deception. Cheery optimists have a much less realistic view of themselves than do those who are depressed. — David Benatar