Pienses Quotes & Sayings

I am truly a product of Hollywood in-breeding. When two celebrities mate, someone like me is the result. — Carrie Fisher

The aspect of the venerable mansion has always affected me like a human countenance, bearing the traces not merely of outward storm and sunshine, but expressive also, of the long lapse of mortal life, and accompanying vicissitudes that have passed within. Were these to be worthily recounted, they would form a narrative of no small interest and instruction, and possessing, moreover, a certain remarkable unity, which might almost seem the result of artistic arrangement. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

A bully doesn't answer you; he may hear but pays no heed; he talks on as if you were of no account, and it gives him the advantage always at the start, though not always — Ursula K. Le Guin

Everybody relates to having a dream. — Jennifer Aniston

The Heaven Inc. Board of Directors, whom one has to thank for the origin of most mainstream religion, are also the ones responsible for ending any god's career. Nietzsche knew that as the CEO, he could influence the outcome of world religion but he needed to come up with something big. Something inspirational. Something with pizazz. Something that would fire up the imagination of the other members. The board was newly elected. They were shy, passive, reflexive, and thoroughly stupid — Dylan Callens

I'm much softer than people think. I don't present to the world an emotional face. I'm pretty good at self-control, but I am easily moved. — Christopher Lee

The only drinking problem I've ever had, is figuring out why I'm still stuck in this salad spinner — Josh Stern

And yet, even as she spoke, she knew that she did not wish to come back. not to stay, not to live. She loved the little yellow cottage more than she loved any place on earth. but she was through with it except in her memories. — Maud Hart Lovelace

Lee looked amused. I knew this because he was smiling so much he looked like he was about to burst out laughing. — Kristen Ashley

His face churned. That was the point, before he said a word, that he broke her heart. The contortion of those muscles paraded a decision over whether to tell her the truth. Once he finally spoke, Lawrence's opting for the honesty route didn't nearly compensate for the fact that candor had been a choice. For an alternative direction to have beckoned, it was probably well trod. — Lionel Shriver

The higher the yield, the higher the risk. A high yield is designed to attract investors. An outrageously high yield attracts fools. — Nancy Dunnan

If we are going to make the change from community to communitas, and not just end up with an unsustainable adrenaline-junkie culture, we must have a sophisticated process to form people into adventurer-disciples. — Alan Hirsch

He recognised that all the period of Odette's life which had elapsed before she first met him, a period of which he had never sought to form any picture in his mind, was not the featureless abstraction which he could vaguely see, but had consisted of so many definite, dated years, each crowded with concrete incidents. But were he to learn more of them, he feared lest her past, now colourless, fluid and supportable, might assume a tangible, an obscene form, with individual and diabolical features. And he continued to refrain from seeking a conception of it, not any longer now from laziness of mind, but from fear of suffering. — Marcel Proust

No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself. — Virginia Woolf

One must picture everything in the world as an enigma, and live in the world as if in a vast museum of strangeness. — Giorgio De Chirico