Outwardly Focused Quotes & Sayings

Everything seems simple until you think about it. — Audrey Niffenegger

All of life and history is holding you on its shoulders so you can stretch one atom further. — Bryant McGill

She went as through a forest
the columns were furrowed like ancient trees, and in through the forest flowed the light, many-hued and clear as song, from the pictured windows. High up above her, beasts and men sported among the stone leafage, and angels played
and yet far, dizzily far higher, the vaulting soared, lifting the church towards God. In a hall that lay to one side, worship was being held at an altar. Kristin sank down on her knees by a pillar. The singing cut into her like a too strong light. Now she saw how low she lay in the dust ... Pater noster. Credo in unum Deum. Ave Maria, gratia plena. — Sigrid Undset

Under natural conditions, a typical chimpanzee troop consists of about twenty to fifty individuals. As the number of chimpanzees in a troop increases, the social order destabilises, eventually leading to a rupture and the formation of a new troop by some of the animals. Only in a handful of cases have zoologists observed groups larger than a hundred. Separate groups seldom cooperate, and tend to compete for territory and food. Researchers have documented prolonged warfare between groups, and even one case of 'genocidal' activity in which one troop systematically slaughtered most members of a neighbouring band. — Yuval Noah Harari

I don't read books on how to write screenplays just because I'm stubborn. So it's all sort of made up. — Shane Carruth

Spring time is a refreshing time. — Lailah Gifty Akita

First and foremost, you have to make the movie for yourself. And that's not to say, to hell with everyone else, but what else have you got to go on but your own taste and judgment? — Harold Ramis

Maybe you'll call me someday Hear the operator say the numbers no good And that She had a world of chances for you She had a world of chances for you She had a world of chances Chances you were burning through — Demi Lovato

There are sure to be two prescriptions diametrically opposite. — Henry David Thoreau

What's interesting, I think, is that a lot of times, women in powerful positions, when they do get critiqued, when they do get criticized, it often revolves around their appearance, their sexuality, their fertility, et cetera. — Anna Holmes

The man I thought I might have been waiting for my whole life. All this time he'd been standing right in front of me, wearing a suit and a sexy-ass smile. — Samantha Young

Believe in your dreams or don't dream at all. — Kensie F