Monrad Metzgen Quotes & Sayings

My dad was very much a struggling actor and spent more of his life as a postman, as a member of a tarmac firm, as a van driver. — Kate Winslet

At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote. — Emo Philips

Words are the birds that break cover and show your enemy where you're hiding. — Mike Carey

Yet though time is cyclic, it is not repetitive; there is no other time within which it can repeat itself. For time is but an abstraction from the successive-ness of events that pass; and since all events whatsoever form together a cycle of successive-ness, there is nothing constant in relation to which there can be repetition. And so the succession of events is cyclic, yet not repetitive. The birth of the all-pervading gas in the so-called Beginning is not merely similar to another such birth to occur long after us and long after the cosmic End, so-called; the past Beginning is the future Beginning.

When we are in full possession of our faculties, we are not distressed by this fate. For we know that though our fair community must cease, it has also indestructible being. We have at least carved into one region of the eternal real a form which has beauty of no mean order. — Olaf Stapledon

Something is askew when our passion for the truth blinds us to other perspectives and to the grace to be able to differ graciously from others and learn from others who may see things very differently than we do. — Gordon T. Smith

Whatever we do, we do it together. — Kit Rocha

My greatest skill in life has been to want but little — Henry David Thoreau

What would the Living One have me do? — George MacDonald

I'm not a religious person at all. — Marjane Satrapi

All of my girlfriends have been actors, and I've realized that maybe it's not for me - and find something else outside of the industry. — Jesse Spencer

Oh shit. Was someone about to break into the place he'd broken into first? Fuckers. Didn't they know that breaking and entering was a crime? — Cari Quinn

States and Provinces and curricula around the world track students by age. This practice is so common that we do not think of it as tracking. With few exceptions, a six year old must go into first grade even if that six year old is not ready or was ready for the grade one year earlier. — Zalman Usiskin

The journey is not linear, it is always back and forth, denying the calendar, the wrinkles and lines of the body. — Jeanette Winterson

Once he said to her: 'You are like me; you are different from other people. You are Kamala and no one else, and within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat any time and be yourself, just as I can. Few people have that capacity and yet everyone could have it. — Hermann Hesse