Satran Quotes & Sayings

Every woman should have a youth she's content to leave behind and a past juicy enough that she's looking forward to telling it in her old age — Pamela Redmond Satran

We've known about the transcendent power of solitude for centuries; it's only recently that we've forgotten it. — Susan Cain

But the past couple of days I've missed you so much it's felt like missing you is all I am. — Elizabeth Scott

Hollywood is like being nowhere and talking to nobody about nothing. — Michelangelo Antonioni

For a young person cannot judge what is allegorical and what is literal; anything that he receives into his mind at that age is likely to become indelible and unalterable; and therefore it is most important that the tales which the young first hear should be models of virtuous thoughts. There you are right, he replied; but if any one asks where are such models to be found and of what tales are you speaking - how shall we answer him? I said to him, You and I, Adeimantus, at this moment are not poets, but founders of a State: now the founders of a State ought to know the general forms in which poets should cast their tales, and the limits which must be observed by them, but to make the tales is not their business. Very — Plato

We ought to make the pie higher. — George W. Bush

A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ...
a set of screwdrivers, a cordless drill, and a black
lace bra ... — Pamela Redmond Satran

They also accused her of being sardonic, and although there was uncertainty about the meaning of the word, they knew it was not a desirable quality in a woman, being one which gentlemen particularly disliked. — P.D. James

There is no work of art that has ever been made that is absolutely truthful about life. — Richard Foreman

A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ...
one friend who always makes her laugh ... and one who
lets her cry ... — Pamela Redmond Satran

What I thought was an end turned out to be a middle. What I thought was a brick wall turned out to be a tunnel. What I thought was an injustice turned out to be a color of the sky. — Tony Hoagland

Our observer is not affected by emotional ups and downs, our personal life dramas, or by the events of the external world. It is our observer, at the core of our being, that teaches us to let go as we begin identify with it rather than with all the hubbub of our moment-to-moment experience and our mental chatter about it. — Marcey Shapiro

A library is that venerable place where men preserve the history of their experience, their tentative experiments, their discoveries, and their plans ... in books may be found the recipes for daily living - the prescriptions for the mind and the heart. — Georges Duhamel