Siebzehn Pronunciation Quotes & Sayings

People say movies are escapist, just entertainment, but I think that's only an alibi, a way of hiding from ourselves just how effective what we do actually is. When something is in a movie, and especially when something is in a particularly successful film, its language, its grammar, is added into the grammar of possible reality. The banal fact that sharks are terrifying was cemented into our cultural imagination after Jaws. We have no idea how much power we have and absolutely no idea how to use it. It's like we invent people's dreams. — Jacob Wren

Stories are "how we organize the chaos of experience into the order we require just a carry-on." Joan Gideon — Rick Perlstein

I took pain pills to get to sleep because I didn't want to go to work the next day exhausted. — Dick York

I believe we should spend less time worrying about the quantity of books children read and more time introducing them to quality books that will turn them on to the joy of reading and turn them into lifelong readers. — James Patterson

You never count your chickens before they hatch. I used to keep parakeets and I never counted every egg thinking I would get all eight birds. You just hoped they came out of the nest box looking all right. I'm like a swan at the moment. I look fine on top of the water but under the water my little legs are going mad. — Ian Holloway

God inducts us into the eternal kind of life that flows through himself. He does this first by bringing that life to bear upon our needs, and then by diffusing it throughout our deeds - deeds done with expectation that he and his Father will act with and in our actions. — Dallas Willard

Sound health is the greatest of gifts; contentedness, the greatest of riches; trust, the greatest of qualities. — Gautama Buddha

Absolutely not. I have no problem with commitment. In fact, I love having someone in my life. — Matthew McConaughey

Morality is societal, but kindness is universal. Be kind even if it not always ethical. — Debasish Mridha