Noirs Complexe Quotes & Sayings

The Buddhist version of poverty is a situation where you have nothing to contribute. — Michael Palin

I don't think my work is so much about opening up wounds. I think it's about understanding the nature of the wound. I'm not bleeding on the canvas. I, like most people, have suffered traumatic events. The character of a person's life is determined by the way they deal with those events. I am a creative person and I deal with it creatively. — Eric Fischl

I think that could go back to the time when people had to live in small groups of relatives - maybe fifty or a hundred people at the most. And evolution or God or whatever arranged things genetically, to keep the little families going, to cheer them up, so that they could all have somebody to tell stories around the campfire at night, and somebody else to paint pictures on the walls of the caves, and somebody else who wasn't afraid of anything and so on. That's what I think. And of course a scheme like that doesn't make sense anymore, because simply moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has to give up, has to go into some other line of work, since modern communications put him or her into daily competition with nothing but world's champions. — Kurt Vonnegut

I'm not one of these directors, so far, that wants to have a whole separate director's cut of these things. So far they've turned out to be kind of the length that they wanted to be. — Jay Roach

Difficulty is the nurse of greatness. — William C. Bryant

Eddie told her he had made things square and her eyebrows lifted and her lips spread and Eddie felt and old, warm feeling he had missed for years, the simple act of making his wife happy — Mitch Albom

My ambition is that I have the best players
who can collaborate with each other to form
the best team in the world. — Louis Van Gaal

Dry creek
glimpsed
by lightning — Kobayashi Issa

I have always felt a connection between daily life and art ... my reality has been my key. — Mirella Freni

And all the loveliest things there be come simply, so it seems to me. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

Nothing is inherently tasty or repulsive - it depends on your needs. Deliciousness is simply an index of usefulness. — David Eagleman

I would not regret putting a hole in your arrogant chest, only it would be deflected when it hit that piece of rock you call a heart. — Laurie McBain

What's done is done. You've got to move on. I don't want to say anything bad about the mother of my children. — Peter Andre

But even Superman can be broken.
Self-destruction, too, is a kind of kryptonite. — Danielle Valenilla

Why do you love me?" His heart pounded faster. "Why?"
Simple answer: "Because without you, I'm not me. — Lynn Vroman