Sharply Illuminating Quotes & Sayings

When I turned back, he was already walking away. It was a brilliantly clear day, not a cloud in sight, and yet the sun didn't seem to reach his body. He was shadowed and I couldn't help it: I felt sad for him. — Jessica Shirvington

Epression still kept guard on him, and chased after him like a shadow - or like a faithful wife. — Alexander Pushkin

The Bond was so big and mighty in my career, and it is the gift that just keeps giving. I wouldn't be here today talking about "The November Man" if it hadn't been for James Bond. So, there was a desire, a want, and a need to make this film, "The November Man." I loved the title. It has a sensuality and a mystique to it. — Pierce Brosnan

Sometimes I forget that the world is not on the same schedule as I. That everything is not dying, or that if it is dying it will return to life, what with a little sun and the usual encouragement. Sometimes I think: I am older than this tree, older than this bench, older than the rain. And yet. I'm not older than the rain. It's been falling for years and after I go it will keep on falling. — Nicole Krauss

Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company. — Friedrich Nietzsche

A human being is not a machine. Especially when it comes to creating. — Azzedine Alaia

Stealing a man's wife, that's nothing, but stealing his car, that's larceny. — James M. Cain

If I were you I'd put that away. See you're just wasted and thinking about the past again, darling you'll be okay. — Pierce The Veil

When your attention is diffuse, it's like a broad, weak beam of light that doesn't reveal much. Concentration brings the weak beam down to a single, sharply focused, supremely bright, exponentially more illuminating point. — Sharon Salzberg

How heavy is the toll of sins and wrong that wealth, power and prestige exact from man. — Mahatma Gandhi