Savons Quotes & Sayings

Any time you play a character for a long period of time, regardless of how close it is to you, it infiltrates your life. It's impossible for it not to. — Jesse Eisenberg

You dare travel on the own sacred road. — Lailah Gifty Akita

They ate the apple, and knew good and evil, and became 'as gods.' And they still go on eating it. But little children have not eaten anything and are not yet guilty of anything ... If they, too, suffer terribly on earth, it is, of course, for their fathers; they are punished for their fathers who ate the apple
but that is reasoning from another world; for the human heart here on earth it is incomprehensible. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

A saccharine, sentimental drip ran down my throat, and I was blinded by how stupid I had been not to see that everything was absolutely, one hundred percent going to be okay. — Stephanie Danler

He had emptied the bright goblet of romance; at a single gulp he had emptied it. The glass of it lay scattered on the floor. — Mervyn Peake

Hence, in all countries the chief occupation of society is card-playing, and it is the gauge of its value, and an outward sign that it is bankrupt in thought. Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots! — Arthur Schopenhauer

We see the world as less random than it actually is. — Nassim Taleb

That's the thing about writers -on one hand evrything is sacred to them, but, on the other, nothing really is. — Lang Leav

If we devote ourselves to the life at hand, the rest will follow. For life, it seems, reveals itself through those willing to live. Anything else, no matter how beautiful, is just advertising. — Mark Nepo

My mother wanted me to learn how to read music. She'd given fiddles to my two older brothers, but they'd rebelled. I came along and my father said, "Oh, let Peter enjoy himself." What she did was leave musical instruments all around the house. Whistles, marimbas, squeeze boxes, a piano and organ. By age six or seven, I could bang out a simple tune on almost anything. I developed a good ear, so I didn't learn to read music until I taught myself at age eighteen, 'cause I was hearing so many good songs I couldn't possibly remember them all. — Pete Seeger

Teachers say if you write a story you must never name what you're trying to write. Just do it. When it's over you'll know what you've done. — Ray Bradbury

What counts is the question, of what is a body capable? And thereby he sets out one of the most fundamental questions in his whole philosophy (before him there had been Hobbes and others) by saying that the only question is that we don't even know [savons] what a body is capable of, we prattle on about the soul and the mind and we don't know what a body can do. — Gilles Deleuze