Periscelidae Quotes & Sayings

So many things come from people's parents lying to them about the truth about things. I feel like, once those ideas die with people, we'll be good in a couple of generations. — Vince Staples

I imagine them very clearly and then attempt to describe what I can see. Sometimes I draw them for my own amusement! (talking about her characters and scenes) — J.K. Rowling

And his face is so close to mine that it's like he can see inside my soul — Melina Marchetta

So, we went from being an Athens band to being a Georgia band to being a Southern band to being an American band from the East Coast to being an American band and now we're kind of an international phenomenon. — Michael Stipe

No, I'm not Jewish," she said archly, staring him down, to teach him, to teach him this: "Are you?"
"Yes," he said. He studied her eyes.
"Oh," she said.
"Not many of us in this part of the world, so I thought I'd ask."
"Yes." She felt an embarrassed sense of loss, as if something that should have been hers but wasn't had been taken away, legally, by the police. — Lorrie Moore

But she was my project - I must answer for her - " "No. She's a free woman now. She must answer for herself." "How free can she ever be, in that body, driven by that metabolism, that face - a freak's life - better to die painlessly, than to have all that suffering inflicted on her - " Miles spoke through his teeth. With emphasis. "No. It's. Not." Canaba stared at him, shaken out of the rutted circle of his unhappy reasoning at last. — Lois McMaster Bujold

The person who knows how to adjust to others, he will not have any suffering. 'Adjust everywhere'. — Dada Bhagwan

Dogs, like very small children, are quite mad. — T.H. White

The first thing about the angels that we ought to imitate, is their consciousness of the Presence of God. — John Vianney

I had no plans to be a director. — Mike Figgis

Your mind should be on one thing and one thing only: gaining enough power to be free to live your own purpose and not another man's. — Cheryl Matthynssens

It is like a dream. I didn't sleep for two nights because I was under so much pressure. That elusive medal is probably what has kept me going. I had none of the self-doubts which have bothered me in the past. I was totally positive. — Michaela Dorfmeister

I don't think there's anything more tiring ... than expecting people who don't turn up ... — Elizabeth Goudge

Your intent to find a mate sends out 'strands of consciousness'
however, composed of desire and intent. Like detectives, these
search the world, looking in a completely different way than
a physical sleuth. The world is probed with your characteristics
in mind, seeking for someone else with characteristics that will
best suit your own. — Seth

My mother taught me how to read very early on and at school I was ahead of everyone in class. Reading was always something that I liked because I could do it alone and I was alone a lot of the time with my mother working the hours she did. Books became my friends very early on. — Henry Rollins