Orthodoxia I Thanatos Quotes & Sayings

There's something backward about living in a place so obsessed with the past; it's like everyone's given up on the idea of a future. — Lauren Oliver

When we concentrate on photography, we make it possible to see the walls of photographs in black homes as a critical intervention, a disruption of white control over black images. — Bell Hooks

What I am doing; how I am being as I am doing it; and does it bring honor to my community? What is the lesson in what I am doing? And most importantly, am I having fun? — Iyanla Vanzant

She always says, my lord, that facts are like cows. If you look them in the face hard enough they generally run away. — Dorothy L. Sayers

I always believed in shooting for the top, and to become an American is like becoming a member of the winning team. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time. — George Orwell

Beth asked for time. How long does she need? A day? A week? Hours? Any amount is too long when the girl I'm falling for had tears in her eyes. — Katie McGarry

But it is a curve each of them feels, unmistakably. It is the parabola. They must have guessed, once or twice
guessed and refused to believe
that everything, always, collectively, had been moving toward that purified shape latent in the sky, that shape of no surprise, no second chance, no return. Yet they do move forever under it, reserved for its own black-and-white bad news certainly as if it were the rainbow, and they its children ... — Thomas Pynchon

Our job, as actors, is to just try to be as accurate and as mindful of what the audience is going through and receiving and processing. If it's a situation where the character should look a little bit out of control or do something stupid, it's your job to act into that, in a believable way. — Jason Bateman

I thought it was quite vain to say, I want to be a model. — Kate Moss

Write for yourself, not for a perceived audience. If you do, you'll mostly fall flat on your face, because it's impossible to judge what people want. And you have to read. That's how you learn what is good writing and what is bad. Then the main thing is application. It's hard work. — Wilbur Smith