Marisi Mtg Quotes & Sayings

The standards for what is "normal" have become so formalized and yet so restrictive that people need a break from that horrible feeling of never being able to measure up to whatever it is they think will make them acceptable to other people and therefore to themselves. People get sick with this idea of change; I have been sick with it. We search for transformation in retreats, juice fasts, drugs and alcohol, obsessive exercise, extreme sports, sex. We are all trying to escape our existence, hoping that a better version of us is waiting just behind that promotion, that perfect relationship, that award or accolade, that musical performance, that dress size, that raucous night at a party, that hot night with a new lover. Everyone needs to be pursuing something, right? Otherwise, who are we? How about, quite simply, people? How about human? — Emily Rapp

War is the worst thing that can happen to us, it is worse than a disease; it set our hearts on fire and burns our souls to dust. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

There's no reason to regret anything. Regret is a waste. — Kristen Stewart

You know, I change my hair color a lot, I do all sorts of different things. — Kelly Lynch

I feel for myself, that I'm able to relate to people regarding many different things in context to human spirituality. — Jai Uttal

It is impious, says the modern European superstition, to put a period to our own life, and thereby rebel against our creator: and why not impious, say I, to build houses, cultivate the ground, or sail upon the ocean? In all these actions we employ our powers of mind and body to produce some innovation in the course of nature; and in non of them do we any more. They are all of them therefore equally innocent, or equally criminal. — David Hume

The voice of the Almighty speaks most profoundly in such things as lives in silence themselves. — Cormac McCarthy

People who don't get seasick have no idea what it's like. It's not just nausea. It's nausea plus losing the will to live. — Maria Semple

School's okay. I mean, it's the usual oppressive regime of fascist dogma. But I'm surviving. — Lili Wilkinson

I've never been able to understand where great artists come from. — Harold Prince

Television is a real woman's medium ... but what's disturbing is, still even in television, women have so little to do with what's going on behind the scenes. — Patricia Richardson

Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part of the seventeenth century, were transforming the face of material civilization, and of which England was the daring, if not too scrupulous, pioneer. — E.F. Schumacher