Ofselfandshelf Quotes & Sayings

It is perhaps the simplicity of his affection, the patience of his understanding and loyalty that makes him too easy to love, for his love is taken for granted by many, who give back nothing in return. — Claire North

It's funny, because what happens to me when I read a script, when something grabs hold of me, I start getting these flashes of people or places or things or images. — Johnny Depp

It's dying," I say. "When the center is exposed like that, it doesn't have a chance."
"But it's beautiful," she points out, I stare at the shriveling cactus and try to see the beauty in it.
"That's the way I want to go out," she decides.
"What?" I ask. "Torn up and ripped open?"
She shakes her head. "Totally exposed, with no regrets. You can tell this cactus lived; it has the battle scars to prove it. Why go out looking perfect and put together? It means you didn't experience anything. You didn't take any risks. — Katie Kacvinsky

'Orange Is the New Black' was by far the most watched show in both France and Germany and, in fact, all of the markets that we launched. — Ted Sarandos

I've realized that most of my best ideas have followed a good night's sleep. — Thomas A. Edison

Since then, as the Chinese navy becomes larger and more wide-ranging, the bent toward Mahan has only intensified in Beijing, especially with the rise of Indian sea power, which the Chinese fear; the Indians, for their part, view the Chinese in similar Mahanian terms. — Robert D. Kaplan

A story rises from the springs of creation, from the pure will to be; it tells itself; I takes its own course, finds its own way, its own words; and the writer's job is to be its medium. — Ursula K. Le Guin