Outloud Productions Quotes & Sayings

How did my parents live before texting? Before the internet? I'm used to knowing things and all of this unknowing is driving me mad. — Stephanie Perkins

Place is the greatest thing, as it contains all things. — Thales

Whether you wanted it or not, you were born, you did the best you could, and then, whether you really wanted to or not, you died. — Terry Pratchett

I do have a sense of displacement as constant instability - the uninterrupted existence of everything that I love and care about is not guaranteed at all. I wait for catastrophes. — Aleksandar Hemon

Suddenly, the swan dropped down from the sky, flew low over the swamp, almost touching the water, just slow enough to have a closer look at the girl. The sight of the swan's cold eye staring straight into hers, made the girl feel exposed, hunted and found, while all those who had suddenly stopped eating fish, watched this big black thing look straight at the only person that nobody had ever bothered having a close look at. Her breathing went AWOL while her mind stitched row after row of fretting to strangle her breath: What are they thinking about me now? What did the swan have to single me out for and not anyone else standing around? What kind of premonition is this? Heart-thump thinking was really tricky for her. She feasted on a plague of outsidedness. It was always better never to have to think about what other people thought of her. — Alexis Wright

One man with a gun can control a hundred without one. — Vladimir Lenin

The real enemies of our life are the 'oughts' and the 'ifs.' They pull us backward into the unalterable past and forward into the unpredictable future. But real life takes place in the here and now. — Henri Nouwen