Plameni Quotes & Sayings

I'm a very ordinary human being; I just happen to like reading books. — Haruki Murakami

It is only by hearsay (by word of mouth passed down from generation to generation) that whole peoples adore the God of their fathers and of their priests: authority, confidence, submission and custom with them take the place of conviction or of proofs: they prostrate themselves and pray, because their fathers taught them to prostrate themselves and pray: but why did their fathers fall on their knees? — Percy Bysshe Shelley

In a life filled with great good fortune of health, of creativity, of friends, living in safety and privilege with the loving partner. There was just one bit of misfortune in his life and that was that Peter Morrow seemed to have no idea how very fortunate he was. — Louise Penny

I didn't want to get into acting. I was very happy doing MTV, it took up my time, I was content. — Nafisa Joseph

No one should have to go back to the place where she had once been a girl. — Ann Patchett

To use the term blind faith, is to use an adjective needlessly. — Julian Ruck

I've had such extremes in my life. From being this kind of wild kid, to one year studying to be a Franciscan priest at the seminary ... I was very frustrated. — Tom Cruise

The self, however, is a living organism, and refuses to be denied without a struggle. — Aldous Huxley

For you are an observer, you know, you observe things, that's why you live. — Jack Kerouac

The event, in its emergence, poses its own premises, determining that they were the conditions for its realization. This transition is always the result of a salto mortale, which is a creative act in the sense that it gives the preceding links in the chain of events their meaning. — Stathis Kouvelakis

Relations between the sexes are so complicated that the only way you can tell if members of the set are going together is if they are married. Then, almost certainly, they are not. — Cleveland Amory

You know, I feel like my job is to write a book. Then filmmakers come and they make a movie. And they're two really different art forms. — Ayelet Waldman