Longreads Blog Quotes & Sayings

When you meet the Buddha, kill the Buddha means that when you see that you're grasping or clinging to anything, whether conventionally it's called good or bad, make friends with that. Look into it. Get to know it completely and utterly. In that way it will let go of itself. — Pema Chodron

At one point, I was seriously considering playing Huck Finn in a production in Northern Maine in the dead of winter. — David Walton

In the U.S. and all major countries, there are severe penalties for possessing and/or disclosing classified documents to anyone unauthorized to view these. — Michael E. Salla

I think I definitely learned how to structure songs, just from listening to a lot of 1960s, 1970s pop music, although I'm sure my mother's watchful eye had a lot to do with it. — Caitlin Rose

I don't read critics, and I don't care what they say. You can't let them steal your soul. You do what the director and production is committed to doing. I just think it's terrible that critics have the power to keep people away from a good production. — Blythe Danner

Scotsman's way of dealing with death. He'd found — Ian Rankin

And.. are you willing to go all the way? To understand that food is only a stand-in for love and possibility and spirit? Because if you aren't, you will get caught up in gaining and losing weight for the rest of your life. But if you are willing, then the portal to what you say you want is truly on your plate. — Geneen Roth

There Adam slept, and God formed the body of woman from one of his ribs, signifying that she should stand at his side as a companion and never lie at his feet like a slave, and also that he should love her as his own flesh. — Christine De Pizan

heredity, but personal response is the final determining factor in our lives. And herein lies our area — Ben Carson

I call it the birth vision - what we are called to accomplish. If we follow this calling, we help spiritualize the planet. — James Redfield

I think of Alan Thicke as Perry Como without the excitement. — Gilbert Gottfried

Truly conservative actions arise from intelligent hypotheses, correct facts and sound reasoning. — Warren Buffett

In that fraction of an instant between when that person stops singing and when that person decides to rise from the bed and disappear-a tiny rehearsal, though you do not yet know it, of what will eventually happen for good-time holds still, and you can feel, through your closed eyes, how that person, watching your still, small face in the darkness, has suddenly realized that you are the reason his life matters. — Dara Horn

I like a show to unfold and keep presenting itself, surprising you. — Tommy Tune

I love being outdoors, water sports, hiking - really, anything that keeps me moving! — Witney Carson