Motivational Autobiographies Quotes & Sayings

In the bullring, the terrified bull always returns to same spot as if it is a place of safety. It is called the querencia. In writing, I had found my querencia. My place, my passion. — Chloe Thurlow

One of the reasons ordinary people are incapable of magic is simple dearth of conviction. — Michael Cunningham

Your mother is probably right," Dad said. "Social services frowns on drunk ten-year-ols. Besides, when I dropped my drumsticks and puked onstage, it was punk. If you drop your bow and smell like a brewery, it will look gauche. You classical-music people are so snobby that way. — Gayle Forman

For Man was a culture-bearer as well as a soul-bearer, but his cultures were not immortal and they could die with a race or an age ... — Walter M. Miller Jr.

There is, therefore, a more perfect intellectual life in the angels. In them the intellect does not proceed to self-knowledge from anything exterior, but knows itself through itself ... — Thomas Aquinas

The American fans would love to see me fight anybody. — Floyd Mayweather Jr.

What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world. — Hermann Hesse

I know what my dharma is: I'm supposed to be an actor. — Brie Larson

New Year, new month, new day, new moment, all places we have never been before. Enjoy each experience with relish & spice... tasty times ahead. — Michael Levy

I think all my films can be enjoyed. In fact, they've often surprised me with how they're received. — Todd Haynes

Juggling and balancing effectively required that we make clear, legacy-driven choices about what we're trying to keep in the air and how we sequence our movements down the beam. Because the ultimate grade in life is not based on how far and fast we've walked the beam or how many things we've juggled - it's based on how much we've enjoyed the exercise. — Eric C. Sinoway

Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning. — Samuel Johnson

Wig Out At Jagbags is inspired by Cologne, Germany, Mark Von Schlegell, Rosemarie Trockel, Von Spar and Jan Lankisch, Can and Gas; Stephen-Malkmus-imagined Weezer/Chili Peppers, Sic Alps, UVA in the late 80's, NYRB, Aroma Charlottenburg, inactivity, Jamming, Indie guys trying to sound Memphis, Flipper, Pete Townshend, Pavement, The Joggers, The NBA and home life in the 2010's ... — Stephen Malkmus

Earth . . . A dim place, ancient beyond knowledge . . . Ages of rain and wind have beaten and rounded the granite, and the sun is red and feeble . . . A million cities have lifted towers, have fallen to dust. In place of the old peoples a few thousand strange souls live. There is evil on Earth . . . Earth is dying . . . — Jack Vance