Regina O Melveny Quotes & Sayings

She'd always perceived the world to be against her. Happiness was never to be trusted. And yet I thought vaguely, neither was sorrow. Didn't each come to season in the other? — Regina O'Melveny

The impetuous wind can ignite the fire or put it out. — Regina O'Melveny

Beauty comes to us more readily on a full belly. — Regina O'Melveny

You see a gorgeous woman on your screens in a flak jacket, and it's almost like entertainment. — Anne Sebba

It was my father who had taught me to love books for themselves, the smell of the vellum and paper, the rare authority of the pages. "Here, do you see this marvelous book, the skins of 182 sheep," he once pronounced as he slapped his hand down on the stamped leather cover boards. "The book is a flock, a jewel, a cemetery, a lantern, a garden, a piss pot; pigments ground of precious minerals, charred bone, lamp soot, rare plants and insects. Pigments formed at the corrosion of copper plates suspended above urine. — Regina O'Melveny

I felt that I was burning underwater. — Regina O'Melveny

I thought of the old proverb: Where there are three physicians, there are two atheists. — Regina O'Melveny

I've since come to believe that the world is populated by multitudes of women sitting at windows, inseparable from their surroundings. I myself spent many hours at a window on the Zattere, waiting for my father's return, waiting for my life to appear like one of those great ships that came into the harbor, broad sails filled with the wind of providence ... I'd grown transparent as the glass through which I peered, dangerously invisible even to myself. It was then I knew I must set my life in motion or I would disappear. — Regina O'Melveny

Yet there in the library, Hamish and I climbed the bright ladder of the body, as if it were sky and we a deafening. twisting flock of birds that could never fall to earth. — Regina O'Melveny

The recitation of grievances was strange balm. — Regina O'Melveny

One must stand apart in order to truly know another. — Regina O'Melveny

People sometimes say that bands sound like The Cars, but when I hear it I don't know if they do or not. — Ric Ocasek

It is only the rooms of the present I wish to inhabit. — Regina O'Melveny

Pity the planet, all joy gone
from this sweet volcanic cone;
peace to our children when they fall
in small war on the heel of small
war
until the end of time
to police the earth, a ghost
orbiting forever lost
in our monotonous sublime — Robert Lowell

For it was beautiful upon our tongues and we traced all the lines to the heart. — Regina O'Melveny

Magic is that which it is; it is by itself, like the mathematics; for it is the exact and absolute science of Nature and its laws . Magic is the science of the Ancient Magi: and the Christian religion, which has imposed silence on the lying oracles, and put an end to the prestiges of the false Gods , itself reveres those Magi who came from the East, guided by a Star , to adore the Saviour of the world in His cradle. — Albert Pike

Do not expect Plato's ideal republic; be satisfied with even the smallest step forward, and consider this no small achievement. — Marcus Aurelius

misses opportunities to influence the direction. Rachel needs to work on considering issues from the other person's agenda or point of view so that she can more effectively influence, or at least directly address, their perspective. It will also help her to work on making her conversations as concise and targeted as possible. People can lose interest or get confused during long explanations, or when they are unclear about the message. — Anonymous

Hope was a plain thing for her, common as bread. — Regina O'Melveny