Perpetuate Def Quotes & Sayings

Since making movies is such a messy process, we need to be able to talk candidly, among ourselves, about the mess without having it shared outside the company. By sharing problems and sensitive issues with employees, we make them partners and partowners in our culture, and they do not want to let each other down. — Ed Catmull

can do without a lot of things, the only thing I can't do without is the past. [ — Svetlana Alexievich

We have more poets than judges and interpreters of poetry. It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one. There is, indeed, a certain low and moderate sort of poetry, that a man may well enough judge by certain rules of art; but the true, supreme, and divine poesy is equally above all rules and reason. And whoever discerns the beauty of it with the most assured and most steady sight sees no more than the quick reflection of a flash of lightning. — Michel De Montaigne

I grew up, as many Indians do, in an archipelago of tongues. My maternal grandfather, who was a surgeon in the city of Madras, was fluent in at least four languages and used each of them daily. — Aravind Adiga

The longer you resist the calling of your soul the harder it is to find your way back. Intuition isn't instilled in us for nothing, it's the movement inside us that we must listen to if we want the void to vanish. — Nikki Rowe

When I used to have braces, I would match my rubber bands to the season. — Brad Goreski

We still have not been able to move into those positions in our country that are really directing traffic among that 1 percent, and that's where women have to break through. — Claire McCaskill

But I would have a darkness
in my mind like the dark
the dead calf makes for a time
on the grass where he lies, and will make
in the earth as he is carried down.
May all dead things lie down in me
and be at peace, as in the ground. — Wendell Berry

If you could avoid all your mistakes, you'd miss everything you learned from them. — Marie Forleo