Monier Villa Quotes & Sayings

Because you are already there [in this world], you can appear in the world. Also, it is not possible for something to vanish which does not exist. Because something is there, something can vanish ... But even though you vanish, something which is existent cannot be non-existent. That is the magic. — Shunryu Suzuki

Oh, when a mother meets on high The babe she lost in infancy, Hath she not then for pains and fears, The day of woe, the watchful night, For all her sorrow, all her tears, An over-payment of delight? — Robert Southey

It is commonplace to say that silent films are more "dreamlike," but what does that mean? In Nosferatu, it means that the characters are confronted with alarming images and denied the freedom to talk them away. There is no repartee in nightmares. Human speech dissipates the shadows and makes a room seem normal. Those things that live only at night do not need to talk, for their victims are asleep, waiting. — Roger Ebert

I did not choose solitude. Who would? It came on me like a kind of vocation, demanding an effort that married women can't picture. — Louise Erdrich

The story she had told me was possible, but it was not believable. — Giacomo Casanova

I'm obsessed with the human psyche. I want to understand. I want to ask myself if I have it inside me. — Noomi Rapace

I can't forget you, any more than I can forget my own name. He kissed me then, and the world which no longer mattered, completely fell away. — Jeri Smith-Ready

Yet Trump has managed to convince his legions that making vile comments about someone is a revolutionary act, a badge of honor and a long-overdue tipping of society's scales back toward reason and truth. Sometimes he's right, but so is the proverbial stopped watch. — Kathleen Parker

It was a relief so enormous it wrung the air from my lungs, and I deepened the kiss, wondering whether she could feel from my touch that I had just put a name to what we were doing - making love - or if she simply tasted her sex on my tongue, and didn't understand that my entire world had just spun free of its programmed orbit. — Christina Lauren