Scendent Quotes & Sayings

Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. — Gustave Flaubert

...we take care not to touch each other in public, nor do we look into each other's eyes except furtively, because Ivan must first wash my eyes with his own, removing the images which landed on my retina before his arrival. — Ingeborg Bachmann

So what brings you to the doctor today?"
"hmm, im afraid i have the chronic desire to save people"
"i know about that. i've got it too. maybe it's catching."
"not catching enough — Deb Caletti

The reality was so striking that it even found expression in an animated cartoon, The Aristocats, set in Paris in 1910. The size of the old lady's fortune is not mentioned, but to judge by the splendor of her residence and by the zeal of her butler Edgar to get rid of Duchesse and her three kittens, it must have been considerable. — Thomas Piketty

They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. — Oscar Wilde

I've done scenes in films that I felt like the performance was better in certain takes, but they couldn't use them because it didn't match what the person was doing when they came around and the camera was on them. — David Morse

Great acting may be a turn-on, but it won't make me fantasize about the person for a week. — Sandra Bullock

I expect God to use me, not because of who I am but because of who Jesus is. Not because of what I've done, but because of what Jesus has done. — Rick Warren