Munsterberg Photoplay Quotes & Sayings

What allows people to have such a strong inner compass, a North Star that steers them through life according to the dictates of their deepest values and purposes? — Daniel Goleman

I still have my girlfriends that I grew up with. We went to day care together ... we just feel comfortable with each other. We're honest, we're total goofs. — Britney Spears

The city might be savage, stray dogs might share the streets with grimy urchins whose blank eyes reflected the knowledge that they might soon be covered over, blinded forever, by the same two pennies just begged from some gentleman, and no one in the fuming, fulminous boulevards of trade might know who actually ran Ambergris-or, if anyone ran it at all, but, like a renegade clock, it ran on and wound itself heedless, empowered by the insane weight of its own inertia, the weight of its own citizenry. — Jeff VanderMeer

What's your name?"
"Becky Thatcher. What's yours? Oh, I know. It's Thomas Sawyer."
"That's the name they lick me by. I'm Tom when I'm good. You call me Tom, will you?"
"Yes — Mark Twain

Sometimes you wish to escape to another part of the book.
You stop reading and riffle the pages, catching sight of the story as it races ahead, not above the world but through it, through forests and complications, the chaos of intentions and cities.
As you near the last few pages you are hurtling through the book at increasing speed, until all is a blur of restlessness, and then suddenly your thumb loses its grip and you sail out of the story and back into yourself. The book is once again a fragile vessel of cloth and paper. You have gone everywhere and nowhere. — Thomas Wharton

A person may rise to the highest degree of contemplation even when busily occupied. — Mary Euphrasia Pelletier

Living on borders and in margins, keeping intact one's shifting and multiple identity and integrity, is like trying to swim in a new element, an 'alien' element. — Gloria E. Anzaldua

We're obliged to acknowledge the limits of reason; and to acknowledge the necessary reality of the realms to which reason has no access. — John Anthony West

Assume makes an ass out of you and me - p.239 — David Leavitt

Everybody has ideas. The vital question is, what do you do with them? My rock musician sons shape their ideas into music. My sister takes her ideas and fashions them into poems. My brother uses his ideas to help him understand science. I take my ideas and turn them into stories. — Avi

Life is beautiful, and it begins tomorrow. — Edith Hahn Beer

Days are expensive. When you spend a day you have one less day to spend. So make sure you spend each one wisely. — Jim Rohn

Politics is always driven by competing worries. — George F. Will

If someone gives you so-called good advice, do the opposite; you can be sure it will be the right thing nine out of 10 times. — Anselm Feurbah