Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag Quotes & Sayings

But I remember thinking that learning how to endure your disappointment and frustration is part of the job of a creative person. If you want to be an artist of any sort, it seemed to me, then handling your frustration is a fundamental aspect of the work - perhaps the single most fundamental aspect of the work. — Elizabeth Gilbert

And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive. Even if they're saying your name with dislike, at least you know you're you, that you exist. — Aidan Chambers

My choices in films are spontaneous. — Nicole Kidman

The real purpose of painting is to give pleasure. — Robert Ryman

I have short-term memory loss, though I'd like to think of it as Persidential eligibility. — Paula Poundstone

In this world, people actually don't live a life for themselves but usually live a life for someone they love. — Vinayak

I take no pride in my artistic talents; they are God-given and I see absolutely no reason to become puffed up over something that one has received. — Igor Stravinsky

For now that it was gone, it all seemed Far stranger: more fantastical than Pharaoh. And he was changed: a foreigner among them. — Seamus Heaney

I was an open, smiley and gregarious child. I could make friends in 30 seconds wherever I went. — America Ferrera

How do you open the eyes to see how to take the daily, domestic, workday vortex and invert it into the dome of an everyday cathedral? — Ann Voskamp

Work done by other people sounds easy. How hard can it be to take care of a newborn who sleeps 20 hours a day? How hard can it be to keep track of your billable hours? To travel for one night for business? To get a 4-year-old ready for school? To return a few phone calls? To load the dishwasher? To fill out some forms? — Gretchen Rubin

Perhaps we all give the best of our hearts uncritically
to those who hardly think about us in return. — T.H. White

What is
the right tool,
the best option,
the choicest gift,
the winning hand,
the greatest relief,
the finest revenge,
the sweetest drink,
the perfect response,
the working solution,
the strongest medicine?
The correct answer is kindness. — Richelle E. Goodrich