Petroff Quotes & Sayings

Asked what role he believes art plays in society, Baselitz replied, 'The same role as a good shoe, nothing more. — Georg Baselitz

I think people are often quite unaware of their inner selves, their other selves, their imaginative selves, the selves that aren't on show in the world. It's something you grow out of from childhood onwards, losing possession of yourself, really. I think literature is one of the best ways back into that. You are hypnotized as soon as you get into a book that particularly works for you, whether it's fiction or a poem. You find that your defenses drop, and as soon as that happens, an imaginative reality can take over because you are no longer censoring your own perceptions, your own awareness of the world. — Jeanette Winterson

Starla, when you work in a restaurant, it's not called 'pie with ice cream on top.' It's called pie a la mode. Try saying it one time."
"A-la-mo," she pronounced.
"There's a good girl," Darius said, grinning. "The next time you ask a customer if he wants some dessert, you ask him if he wants pie Alamo. — Erin O'Riordan

Desire and longing are the whips of God. — Anna Wickham

I'm sorry I stood there like a half-wit, Count Petroff," she told him matter-of-factly, "but I was a bit
surprised. After all, it's not everyday that I see a man who's prettier than I am."
(Alexandra) — Johanna Lindsey

Within every girl is the possibility of arousing emotion. Without emotion there is no beauty. — Diana Vreeland

Caregiving often calls us to lean into love we didn't know possible. — Tia Walker

You cannot play the Song of Freedom on an instrument of oppression. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

The past, future, or now, I'll find you - don't worry how. I have my ways, and one of these days. I'm gonna find you. I'm gonna find you. — Shani Petroff

Once you do away with the idea of people as fixed, static entities, then you see that people can change, and there is hope. — Bell Hooks

You don't need to see different things, but rather to see things differently. — Lama Surya Das

I see film as a real opportunity to examine the human condition. No matter where the technology goes in the future, the basics don't change. Storytelling is a primitive tribal function. The elders sat around the fires and told these stories as a way to pass on the 'dos' and the 'don'ts.' That will never change. — Michael Schultz