Sheck Quotes & Sayings

In LA, too many people want to go the quickest route from A to B. Method acting offers them that. — Corin Nemec

What is meant by 'nut bag'? Is that a testicular reference or merely the identification of a satchel of cashews or pecans? — Jessica Park

Because unless you take your women by force, there was never a chance in hell I'd be in your bed. Vibrators were invented for women when their options were limited to men like you. — Ada Frost

After getting respect, one will get an equal amount of insult, if not in this life then the next. If you taste even the slightest of pleasure from this body-complex [pudgal], you will have to pay back an equivalent amount. Therefore become attachment-free (vitarag). — Dada Bhagwan

For instinct dictates our duty and the intellect supplies us with pretexts for evading it. — Marcel Proust

Thinking has a quiet skin. But I feel the and of things inside it.
Blue hills most gentle in calm light, then stretches of assail
And ransack. Such tangles of charred wreckage, shrapnel-bits
Singling and singeing where they fall. I feel the stumbling gait of what I am,
The quiet uproar of undone, how to be hidden is a tempting, violent thing
Each thought breaking always in another.
All the unlawful elsewheres rushing in. — Laure Sheck

I don't understand how they can call me anti-Latino, when I've made four movies in Mexico. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

This is what I love about novels, both reading them and writing them. They jump into the abyss, to be with you — John Green

The atmosphere of my faith brightens with every Christ-centered book I read. — Alisa Hope Wagner

We have to love technology enough to describe it accurately. And we have to love ourselves enough to confront technology's true effect on us. — Sherry Turkle

Reason is a necessary instrument, to be used for good or evil, but it has no moral qualities. — Reinhard Bendix

So much of life is invisible, inscrutable: layers of thoughts, feelings, outward events entwined with secrecies, ambiguities, ambivalences, obscurities, darknesses strongly present even to the one who's lived it- maybe especially to the one who's lived it. I didn't seek to find her, wandered instead within and among her fragments of language-notebooks, drafts, journals, fictions, letters, essays, and found there whole worlds like spinning planets, lived in their cold light and burning light, wondering where I was, where they might take me. Curious, I heard a monster's voice and followed- — Laurie Sheck

Scarlett O'Hara's father, Thomas, is an Irish immigrant who names his plantation Tara, after the home of the High Kings in Ireland. In an appealing nod to the "luck of the Irish," we read that Thomas O'Hara won his lands in a card game! — Rashers Tierney

He heard bombs exploding like fireworks, and as if in a dream his father's face flashed before him, wanting to know what Alexander was doing near death's door before it was his time. He said, Dad, I'm going for her. — Paullina Simons

Our minds have been built by selfish genes, but they have been built to be social, trustworthy and cooperative. — Matt Ridley