Outline Cusk Quotes & Sayings

At lunch you order steamed vegetables because you're remembering that you have a heart too. You feel humbled by your heart, it works so hard. You want to thank it. You give your heart a little pat — Aimee Bender

I have thought about that very often - how the times change, and the same words that carry a good many people into the howling wilderness in one generation are irksome or meaningless in the next. — Marilynne Robinson

There's a certain amount of empathy you need to have, and I've also never been one to call it in. I know some roles are easier for certain people, especially when there's the sequel and a third and a fourth one. — Kim Basinger

If you become the star of the show, you can feel the heat. Use it to your advantage. Feel the limelight. — The Eldest

In everyone's life, there is a line between reality and dreams; but poets don't have that line. — M.F. Moonzajer

Actors like Daniel Day-Lewis, Gary Oldman, they totally immerse themselves in their parts. — Sean Bean

Table. Her phone rang at the same time she flipped the book open. Mama, — Carolyn Brown

I can imagine that the oceanic feeling could become connected with religion later on. That feeling of oneness with the universe which is its ideational content sounds very like a first attempt at the consolations of religion, like another way taken by the ego of denying the dangers it sees threatening it in the external world. — Sigmund Freud

Human nature is like a drunk peasant. Lift him into the saddle on one side, over he topples on the other side. — Martin Luther

This anti-description, for want of a better way of putting it, had made something clear to her by a reverse kind of exposition: while he talked she began to see herself as a shape, an outline, with all the detail filled in around it while the shape itself remained blank. Yet this shape, even while its content remained unknown, gave her for the first time since the incident a sense of who she now was. — Rachel Cusk

I could be wrong, but she seemed to be one of those anti-gluten, pro-yoga, organic wine bar, Generation-Y echo boomers. A Gwyneth Paltrow type who would name her first daughter Persimmon or whatever. — Paul Levine

Life is 10% of what happens to us and 90% of how we react to it — John C. Maxwell