Overflowd Quotes & Sayings

Men grind and grind in the mill of a truism, and nothing comes out but what was put in. But the moment they desert the tradition for a spontaneous thought, then poetry, wit, hope, virtue, learning, anecdote, and all flock to their aid. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our lives are so diversified, internal attitudes so varied, appearances and capabilities so different, that there is no possible classification so catholic that it will cover us all, except My people! My people! — Zora Neale Hurston

If I were to splay you out on my desk and thrust my fingers into you right now, I think I'd find different. — Nalini Singh

Self-education is a continuing source of pleasure to me, for the more I know, the fuller my life is and the better I appreciate my own existence — Isaac Asimov

I had innumerable analysts who came to me in apology that the world that we were finding was not the world that they had thought existed and that they had estimated. Reality on the ground differed in advance. — David Kay

Maybe because I come from choreography, I've always felt that there's something about action films that made it very natural for me to go that way. It's story through movement. — Rob Marshall

Texas is the crossroads of the world. Everything here is big. — Bobby Lee

The place Joanne is building inside [herself] has rooms for all of this. Not just rooms. Beautiful ones. For Karl and Jerry and Karen and Nate in his cowboy hat and the hot-tub guy and movie directors and old-lady healers and people trying to love their asses and people who think they're stupid for it. In these rooms, each thing that looks crazy or stupid will be like a drawing you give your mother, regarded with complete acceptance and put on the wall. Not because it is good but because it is trying to understand something. In these rooms, there will be understanding. In these rooms, each madness and stupidity will be unfolded from its knot and smoothed with loving hands until the true thing inside lies revealed. — Mary Gaitskill

The press is like the air, a chartered libertine. — William Pitt

I don't hold Travis anymore, of course- not to read to him, or for any other reason, either. I wish I'd known that the last time was going to be the last time. — Elizabeth Berg

Despite all the evils they wished to crush me with/
I remain as steady as the three-legged cauldron. — Monique Wittig