Rebreathed Quotes & Sayings

The room was filled with smoke, dry worn-out smoke retaining in it like a web the insectile cadavers of dry husks of words which had been spoken and should be gone, the breaths exhaled not to be breathed again. But the words went on, and in those brief interruptions between cigarettes the exhalations were rebreathed. — William Gaddis

That moment when the person actually dictates the way I do the portrait is when the intimacy arrives. — Francesco Clemente

He who would travel happily must travel light". ~Antoine de St. Exupery — Bob Wells

I fall in love with contradictions without understanding. I can't really portray them unless I do. So in a roundabout way I have to fall in love, it's my duty. If love is about understanding and understanding is compassion and compassion is love, I have to have compassion towards the world. — Joseph Fiennes

The familial rupture led to Prince becoming a person who cannot trust others, and must be in dictatorial control of everything around him, Leeds explained, "Anyone assuming any kind of control frightens the hell out of him. So much of what he does is driven by fear, fear of someone else having control. — Toure

I freeze instantly, shocked at the audacity of our party's attendees, when I hear the unmistakable sound of a zipper followed by a breathless but familiar feminine gasp of, "Oh yes!" in the darkened alcove a few feet in front of me. — K. Bromberg

When you fight you are in a situation where failure can happen. This chance of failure forges your character in many ways. — Daniel Hudson

But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep? — James Thurber

Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting. — Gertrude Stein

Ideas which have been developed simultaneously or in immediate succession in the same mind mutually reproduce each other, and do this with greater ease in the direction of the original succession and with a certainty proportional to the frequency with which they were together. — Hermann Ebbinghaus

My seventeen years of teaching inform my sense of audience in every line I write. — Will Hobbs

My mom, through my dad, rented the apartment next door to his ... he had the lease on both places. But then, she would dress up and act like his maid ... a practical maid. No fantasies. — Trevor Noah

You have to get beyond your own precious inner experiences. — Stella Adler

It's always great to be involved in something that's not in an in-your-face fashion, but has a message that goes out guised as entertainment. — Scott Bakula