Macklowe Organization Quotes & Sayings

A roar rumbled in Curran's throat. Barabas sat back a bit. I shuddered. "So scary. Still can't tell you." He opened his mouth. "Lorelei," I said. Curran swore. Barabas — Ilona Andrews

I am older now, and sleep less, and have seen most of what there is to see and am not very much impressed any more, I suppose, by anything. — Loren Eiseley

Dissociation is adaptive: it allows relatively normal functioning for the duration of the traumatic event and then leaves a large part of the personality unaffected by the trauma. — Bessel A. Van Der Kolk

Ordinary people believe only in the possible. Extraordinary people visualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is impossible. And by visualizing the impossible, they begin to see it as possible — Cherie Carter-Scott

We do many things we shouldn't in the course of a life. It doesn't make them right or wrong, just a part of who we are. — Lorenzo Carcaterra

Artists put as much vitality and delight into their saintliness and escape out as most men do their escapes into similar places from respectable existence. — Wyndham Lewis

He's a sculpture. Painstakingly chiseled into perfection over the course of years, until arias could be written about his eyebrows, his cheekbones, the freaking shape of his nostrils. And me? Well, I'm probably a finger-painting. Done by a three-year-old. Without supervision. — Julie Johnson

How was your flight? Well, aeronautically it was a great success. Socially, it left quite a bit to be desired. — Noel Coward

I wouldn't count myself as being a true blues guitarist because I feel you have to live it. — Robin Trower

In fact, neuroscience research has demonstrated with fMRI studies that when people engage in analytical thought, their ability to empathize is repressed and vice versa. — Bryan Eisenberg

But before Christianity was a rich and powerful religion, before it was associated with buildings, budgets, crusades, colonialism, or televangelism, it began as a revolutionary nonviolent movement promoting a new kind of aliveness on the margins of society. — Brian D. McLaren

In fact the problem Leopardi is facing is speculative and metaphysical, a problem in the history of philosophy from Parmenides to Descartes and Kant: the relationship between the idea of infinity as absolute space and absolute time, and our empirical knowledge of space and time. — Italo Calvino

Everyone does deserve a second chance, although we don't often get one, and even when we do get a second chance, we're likely to make the same mistake again. The things we learn later rather than sooner tend to result from harsh lessons, but mostly we learn nothing at all. — Binnie Kirshenbaum

Man is more powerful than matter. — Benjamin Disraeli

The trouble is that everybody, myself included, has a brain in which the centers concerned with reason and logic are sitting on top of the socalled limbic system which we inherited from our reptilian ancestors and which never evolved past crude instincts and emotions. And that is why we have not yet arrived at the sate of homo sapiens. — Paul Watzlawick