Monographs Example Quotes & Sayings

Every character in each of my movies is a different side of myself. — Ralph Bakshi

When something is bothering me, I seek refuge. No need to travel far; a trip to the realm of literary memory will suffice. For where can one find more noble distraction, more entertaining company, more delightful enchantment than in literature? — Muriel Barbery

His love of the sea had profound roots: the hardworking artist's desire to rest, his longing to get away from the demanding diversity of phenomena and take shelter in the bosom of simplicity and immensity; a forbidden penchant that was entirely antithetical to his mission and, for that very reason, seductive-a proclivity for the unorganized, the immeasurable, the eternal: for nothingness. — Thomas Mann

I don't understand why women journalists always ask women about motherhood? It's far more important and interesting for women to talk about their work, their thoughts, their creativity and their individual identity. — Laetitia Casta

Suffering is due entirely to clinging or resisting. It is a sign of our unwillingness to move on, to flow with life — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

When you stop living your life based on what others think of you real life begins. At that moment, you will finally see the door of self acceptance opened. — Shannon L. Alder

One of the things I learned on the street was to trust life and to keep hands off of it, and that feeling continues in the rest of the works that I do, the portrait, the landscapes, or any interest that I have. Things are good enough as they are, there's no reason to tamper with them. — Joel Meyerowitz

It's like watching a James Bond movie. Morpheus - in a black trench-coat-style blazer that hangs to his thighs, gray tweed pants, a dark gray vest, skinny red tie, and black pin-striped dress shirt - could pass for a punk-fae secret agent who's captured his villain. His thick blue waves touch his shoulders from under a gray tweed flat cap, and his wings drape down his back and across the floor, fluttering sporadically as he keeps his balance against Jeb's resistance. — A.G. Howard

You can have faith or you can have control, but you cannot have both. If you want God to do something off the chart, you have to take your hands off the controls. — Mark Batterson

The desire to get money through jobs enslaves us — Sunday Adelaja