Ortodoxia Marturisitoare Quotes & Sayings

I think that cable TV is a great venue to do something interesting. — Bob Odenkirk

Creation signifies, above all, emotion, and that not in literature or art alone. We all know the concentration and effort implied in scientific discovery. Genius has been defined as an infinite capacity for taking pains. — Henri Bergson

What do I think about the way most people dress? Most people are not something one thinks about. — Diana Vreeland

Art is like therapy; what comes up is what comes up. It may be dark, but that's what comes up. You may want to keep some of it in a drawer but never judge it. — Nick Bantock

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone. — Alan W. Watts

Beaming and melting in smiles of benevolence and self-effacement, they sidled up and plumped down next to Lucette, who turned to them with her last, last, last free gift of staunch courtesy that was stronger than failure and death. — Vladimir Nabokov

He knows what he'll find if he digs deeper. there's no rush to unpack my insides. he understands there is nothing special about emptiness, nothing interesting about depression. — Jasmine Warga

How many men I know who are earning dollars aplenty, but who are really earning little of what counts. They are so overwhelmingly engrossed in business that they get nothing from their dollars. The Juggernaut of dollar-making has crushed out of them every capacity for genuine enjoyment, every grace, every unselfish sentiment and instinct. — B.C. Forbes

Though the sex to which I belong is considered weak you will nevertheless find me a rock that bends to no wind. — Elizabeth I

Christianity and capitalism are both probably right to detest a plant like cannabis. Both faiths bid us to set our sights on the future; both reject the pleasures of the moment and the senses in favor of the expectation of a fulfillment yet to come - whether by earning salvation or by getting and spending. More even than most plant drugs, cannabis, by immersing us in the present and offering something like fulfillment here and now, short-circuits the metaphysics of desire on which Christianity and capitalism (and so much else in our civilization) depend.* — Michael Pollan

I'm someone who laughs a lot and cries a lot. — Anne-Marie Duff

I want them poor and they deserve to be poor. You can't have capitalism without punishment. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb