Nijinskys Quotes & Sayings

I clearly saw the skeleton underneath
all this show of personality
what is left of a man
and all his pride but bones? — Jack Kerouac

It was incomprehensible to Ricky that anyone could find Milburn boring: if you watched it closely for seventy years, you saw the century at work. — Peter Straub

Dear Margot,
You say that we had to break up because you don't want to go to college with a boyfriend, and you want your freedom, and you don't want to be held back. But you know and I know that's not the real reason You broke up with me because we had sex anf you were scared of getting close to me.
Josh — Jenny Han

I am a queen" she observes. "It is natural that men are going to gather round me, hoping for a smile. — Philippa Gregory

I don't watch a lot of porn, but a typical search term for me is "fat lesbians." What a beautiful fantasy: to be accepted and embraced and adored as your biggest self, the most you, by a woman who is her fullest her. — Melissa Broder

I want to flee toward a perpetual dawn with a swiftness and relentlessness that leaves no room for remorse, regret, or repentance. I want to outstrip the inventive man who is a curse to the earth in order to stand once again before an impassable deep which not even the strongest wings will enable me to traverse. — Henry Miller

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency. — Bill Gates

Work and wine, maintaining sanity for unhappily married women everywhere. — Claire Contreras

I believe in holiness and sacredness in other people. It doesn't mean that the clouds part and I see God. That's a juvenile way of thinking about it. — Karen Armstrong

Far too much reorganization goes on all the time. Organizitis is like a spastic colon. — Peter Drucker

Women hang onto the romanticism of a relationship. But a man compartmentalises it into the past and then gets on with his new life. — Pattie Boyd

I love this country, I love these people, though I can't say I love their politicians. People are always nicer than politicians, but here, you can mark that difference up a hundredfold. — Paddy Ashdown

But the thing about knowing you're about to die is that you spend a lot of time thinking about being alive. Way more than you do if you're actually going to live - living takes up so much brain space that it squished out the other stuff. The important things. Like when you feel like the best version of yourself. Who was there when you did. Whether you've been chasing that version of yourself ever since and never found her. — Non Pratt

We can choose this moment of crisis to ask and answer the big questions of society's evolution - like, what do we want to be when we grow up? — Paul Gilding

I clutched at the brow. The mice in my interior had now got up an informal dance and were buck-and-winging all over the place like a bunch of Nijinskys. — P.G. Wodehouse

An atmosphere ultraviolet rays from the sun, even from a weak sun, would have tended to break apart any incipient bonds made by molecules. And yet right there" - she tapped the stromatolites - "you have organisms almost at the surface. It's a puzzle. — Bill Bryson