Monkeys Climbing Quotes & Sayings

I suppose 'This Little Life' and 'Brick Lane' both have things in common in that they have a female protagonist very much at the centre of the story, and they're subjectively told. — Sarah Gavron

It is about a dragon and a prince and a princess." "Oh, lovely! Does it end happily?" "Happily for the humans. Not so well for the dragon." "Just as it should be. Commence. — Michael D. O'Brien

When you honestly face the fact that the time you will have in this body and this lifetime is limited, you begin to ask yourself important questions about how you will use that time. What legacy, what gift do you wish to leave behind for others? How would you like to be remembered after you have left this life? — Ilchi Lee

Never noticed a female monkey not climbing as well as a male, have you? — Don Whillans

He was conscious of the disastrous fact that love and desire must be expressed in the same way ... — Albert Camus

I have read of a glass kept in an idol temple in Smyrna that would make beautiful things appear deformed, and deformed things appear beautiful; carnal sense is such a glass to wicked men, it makes heavenly things which are beautiful to appear deformed, and earthly things which are deformed to appear beautiful. — Ralph Venning

You're not getting the joy out of literature that it gave you. This is the danger of what we do. Look at Hemingway and so many others. You devote your life to one thing, that is what you are. It's artificial but it's all you have. If you lose it, then you're nothing and there's no point in going on. — T.C. Boyle

The attainment of wholeness requires one to stake one's whole being. Nothing less will do; there can be no easier conditions, no substitutes, no compromises. — Carl Jung

Would she understand that time had stopped while she was gone. — Miranda July

Even in the news division of Fox - which I want to make very clear and I have from the very beginning - I am not a journalist. In fact, I wear that as a badge of honor. — Glenn Beck

Paul Volcker, former chairman of the Federal Reserve (1979-87): The worst financial investment I ever made was spending so much time in government. The most satisfying personal investment I ever made was spending so much time in government, frustrating as it could be. — Anonymous

My life is immeasurably enriched by taking personal responsibility to do what I can, with what I have, where I am ... — Rob Waldrop

Activists measure progress against the standard of perfection, or at least the most perfect possible choice. Historians gauge progress against what came before it. — Jonathan Chait

All orthodox opinion - that is, today, "revolutionary" opinion either of the pure or the impure variety - is anti-man. — Wyndham Lewis

Money is not the motivating force. It's nice to have money, but I don't live high. What I enjoy is running the business. — Rupert Murdoch