Skewes Jewelry Quotes & Sayings

I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility. — Jeanette Winterson

I have a big problem with conductors who gesture a lot. — James Levine

The mental act of sensation which issues in reflex movement is so simple as to defy analysis. — Samuel Alexander

I don't care if people like me or not. Respect is more important. — Alex Rodriguez

I was fortunate to work a lot, and I worked hard, and I was very devoted to that, and then I earned this jewel box of a life that I felt completely entitled to. — Julia Roberts

Friends should be like a good bra, lifting you up. Bad friends are like sports bras. They can do wonders when you go out dancing or during high-energy times, but one a day-to-day basis they really just smush down some of your greatest assets. — Mamrie Hart

What do people think of when they talk about their lives? Do they really see them as an integral whole, as a chronological sequence of events; as something logical, purposeful, completed? What moments do they remember, and how do they remember them? As words? As a series of images and sounds? My life crumbles into a series of pictures, unconnected scenes which comes to mind only occassionally and at random. But there are key events, the acts of chance or fate, which later enable me to construct a logical whole of my life. One such moment was meeting Jose. The other was my decision to see our love through to the very end. — Slavenka Drakulic

Everybody Sails alone, but we can travel side by side — KT Tunstall

I film normal-life subjects in natural settings that some people would consider uncinematic. But what I want to show is nature itself, as the truth of life. — Abbas Kiarostami

Zebras don't change their stripes, and war criminals don't repent. — Jodi Picoult

I read constantly. If I don't have a good book, I'm beside myself. — Gail Godwin

For the next three seconds, he still dared to let himself hope.
Perhaps she was making a grand entrance. Perhaps she would be carried in like Cleopatra, hidden in a roll of fine carpet.
Perhaps
Three porters, grunting, pulled in a handcart.
A crevasse opened before him and in fell his heart. No need to remove the tarpaulin wrapping. He recognized the stone slab
by its size and weight.
She had returned his present. She would have nothing more to do with him. — Sherry Thomas