Scelza Obituary Quotes & Sayings

Is there not perhaps a contradiction between our feeling of freedom and the rigor, as we now understand it, with which things operate in the world? — Carlo Rovelli

I'm a perfectionist; there's always something we need to improve upon, and I think that's a really healthy model for artistic growth and progressing. I'm not ready for a masterpiece. — Michael Angelakos

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters. — Alexander The Great

I think it's really tragic when people get serious about stuff. It's such an absurdity to take anything really seriously ... I make an honest attempt not to take anything seriously: I worked that attitude out about the time I was eighteen, I mean, what does it all mean when you get right down to it, what's the story here? Being alive is so weird. — Frank Zappa

Pooley the realist pooh-poohed such notions, but Pooley the mystic, dreamer and romantic sensed the aura of pagan mystery which surrounded the crop-headed man. — Robert Rankin

I am obsessed with the process of creation. — Zdzislaw Beksinski

If you are in a period of discouragement because you are going through a trial and you are asking yourself, "Why is this happening to me?" consider this: Never make a major decision when you are depressed. Often, when we get discouraged, we are tempted to say, "I'm just going to quit" or "I'm going to move" or "I'm going to change jobs" or "I'm going to file for divorce." Never make a major decision when you are depressed, because at that time your feelings are unreliable and you cannot exercise accurate judgment. Your focus is blurry, and your perspective is distorted. Instead, face the storm head-on and don't get involved in self-pity. — Rick Warren

Healing for me is being able to sit next to the butcher and say 'Yes, I'm sitting next to the butcher now,' instead of saying 'there is no butcher'. — Tori Amos

Nobody strolled and laughed on the sidewalks as relaxing burghers would in sweet, mellow, rotting Europe. — Vladimir Nabokov

An idea is something you work on to make it work and a desire is much deeper in a way. — Michel Hazanavicius

He has added inches and fullness to his beard since his last visit. I'll say no more. — Gregory Maguire

The historian ought to be an educated person, writing for other educated people about something which they don't know about, but wish to know about in a way that they can understand. — John Keegan

Even then, retailers learned early that shoppers prefer their shopping suggestions not be too truthful. One of the great unwritten chapters of retail intelligence programming featured a "personal shopper" program that all-too-accurately modeled the shoppers' desires and outputted purchase ideas based on what shoppers really wanted as opposed to what they wanted known that they wanted. This resulted in one overcompensatingly masculine test user receiving suggestions for an anal plug and a tribute art book for classic homoerotic artist Tom of Finland, while a female test user in the throes of a nasty divorce received suggestions for a small handgun, a portable bandsaw, and several gallons of an industrial solvent used to reduce organic matter to an easily drainable slurry. — John Scalzi

I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it. — Maya Angelou