Reminisces Define Quotes & Sayings

I didn't picture myself as even a grandmaster, to say nothing of aspiring to the chess crown. This was not because I was timid - I wasn't - but because I simply lived in one world, and the grandmasters existed in a completely different one. People like that were not really even people, but like gods or mythical heroes. — Anatoly Karpov

Or maybe when they do the operation- when they grind and stretch your bones to the right shape, peel off your face and rub all your skin away, and stick in plastic cheekbones so you look like everybody else- maybe after going through all that you just aren't very interesting anymore. -Shay, Uglies — Scott Westerfeld

It is gratefulness which makes the soul great. — Abraham Joshua Heschel

Go out in the world and fuck it up beautifully. — John Waters

Maybe that's what life's all about: there's a lof of despair, but also the odd moments of beauty, where time is no longer the same ... [like] something suspended ... an elsewhere ... an always within a never.
Yes, that's is, an always within a never. — Muriel Barbery

I do have a funny perception of mine I'd like to share. Being basically a lifetime poet. I've had many people say "I don't like poetry" But they'll listen to song after song that rhymes on the end in couplets Just a thought ... — Stanley Victor Paskavich

There's a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven't. You just do the best you can. — Clint Eastwood

These were times when all were judged squarely and fairly on their musical tastes, and a personal music collection read as private medical records. — Morrissey

My style when I was 17 was very low-key with jeans, T-shirts, and Converse. I was signed to a major record label by then, so I had stylists helping me. — Michelle Branch

Mastery of language affords remarkable power. — Frantz Fanon

You are a cruel and lying species. You have not kept faith with evolution; you have not kept faith with yourselves; you have not kept faith with your own prophets and seers. — Eden Phillpotts

It's difficult dating as an actor because your free time is precious. The guy I end up with someday is going to have to love traveling. — Serinda Swan

Love me. Be with me."
"That's enough?"
"That's plenty. — Susan Mallery