Quiraing Quotes & Sayings

If your commitment is to being present, then there will come a time when being present becomes your natural state. The present moment becomes your home. You will have short excursions into the world of the mind, but you never go so far into the mind that you get lost there. — Leonard Jacobson

Solitude may rust your words. — Anais Nin

It was most troubling to find there existed a pair of lips he would allow to insult him and yet still want to kiss immediately afterward. — Jayne Fresina

Great men's errors are to be venerated as more fruitful than little men's truths. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Oh, the Bloodwitch named Aeduan was no longer bored. No longer bored at all. And now he had work to do. — Susan Dennard

A tanker truck appeared far down the wavy surface of the highway, headlights on, its weight and shimmering cylindrical shape and dedicated purpose so great and unrelenting that it seemed to move and jitter against the sun's afterglow without sound or mechanically driven power, sustained by its own momentum, as though the truck had a destiny that had been planned long ago. — James Lee Burke

I always love being an actor for the simple fact that, whenever you do a job, you have to read a lot of stuff that you've never read before, you explore things, and generally you meet experts in lots of fields and you get to absorb that information and make it look like you've done it for 20 years. — Kieran Bew

My weakness as an actor is that I think too much. — Seth Numrich

You can't evaluate a prospective partner if you insulate your relationship from your family and friends
and his. — Harriet Lerner

A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you sell it for. — Damien Hirst

Certain things leave you in your life and certain things stay with you. And that's why we're all interested in movies- those ones that make you feel, you still think about. Because it gave you such an emotional response, it's actually part of your emotional make-up, in a way. — Tim Burton

A good picture is equivalent to a good deed. — Vincent Van Gogh

from Hunter's Moon: Memories are deceptive and imperfect; selective and seductive. They have a way of sneaking up on you. A scent, a color, an idle phrase can trigger them and you're powerless to escape. — Ken Gilland

The love of anything is the offspring of knowledge, love being more fervent in proportion as knowledge is more certain. And this certainty springs from a complete knowledge of all parts which united compose the whole of the thing which out to be loved. — Leonardo Da Vinci