Quinlivan Hughes Quotes & Sayings

Magic is 10% secrets and 90% presentation. Mentalism is 5% secrets and 95% presentation. — Harish Kumar

Nobody really wants us. So let us watch and say jaggy things, in the hope that some of them will hurt. — J.M. Barrie

I'm more into MMA than any other sport. I watch a lot of the UFC fights. I have since it first came onto the scene. — Jason Statham

There are, in human affairs, two kinds of problems: those which are amenable to a technical solution and those which are not. Universal health-care coverage belongs to the first category: you can pick one of several possible solutions, pass a bill, and (allowing for some tinkering around the edges) it will happen. — Atul Gawande

I can smell her perfume, something flowery, too strong in this enclosed darkness. I wonder if this is temptation. If so, I am stone. — Joanne Harris

No ethos, pursued without thought or mercy, is ethical. — Janet Morris

The frustration of the Senate is that it's slow. It looks like an aquarium. — Jim Webb

Uneducated therapists often have an inability to cope with the behaviors of persecutory alters. They commonly focus on helping one side of the personality system and battling with the other side. When "Satan" or some similar part talks in a deep scary voice to you or to the client, it is easy to think this is a nasty perpetrator or a supernatural being, and to and to oppose it or fight with it or try to banish it. However, if you do this, you will engender the hostility of this part, who has probably been very badly hurt and told a lot of lies. You will foster internal splitting in this way, and get nowhere fast.
Once you recognize that these alters have a protective intent, you can see that working with them involves enlisting them in the service of healing, just as they were originally enlisted in the cause of safety. You will see examples of these kinds of errors, which often result in clients leaving their therapists, in survivor LisaBri's story: When therapists make mistakes. — Alison Miller

The stories from 1975 on are not finished and there is no resolve. I could spend 50 hours on the last 25 years of jazz and still not do it justice. — Ken Burns

Children are not the people of tomorrow, but people today. They are entitled to be taken seriously. They have a right to be treated by adults with tenderness and respect, as equals. They should be allowed to grow into whoever they were meant to be - The unknown person inside each of them is the hope for the future. — Janusz Korczak

[There are m]oral precepts that we consider really important, such as 'don't pick your nose' or 'don't eat peas with a knife'. There may, for ought I know, be admirable reasons for eating peas with a knife, but ... early persuasion has made me completely incapable of appreciating them. — Bertrand Russell

It's been my goal to work as much as possible, and be as unknown as possible. — Robert Taylor

Everybody always resolves to start exercising, but they never do. You know why ? Because it's January. Who wants to go jogging in the freezing cold ? — Ellen DeGeneres

To say that I enjoyed writing ... is like saying I enjoy having fingers and toes. It's difficult to imagine life without them. — Dennis Covington