Sloped Ceiling Quotes & Sayings

His scar burned, but he was master of the pain; he felt it, yet was apart from it. — J.K. Rowling

She soon learned, though, that giving weight to other people's opinions was creative nihilism; it was like being banished from the Land of No Words and exiled to the Land of All Bullshit. — Stephanie Kallos

Nonetheless even in capitulation there is still hope, and this hope of human beings never ends, will never end. — Ingeborg Bachmann

Sometimes things change irrevocably. You turn a corner, hear a new song, read a book, fall in or out of love, or look at a painting in a different light.
Or you get shot several times.
Then no matter how you try, you can't unsee or unexperience something to make life what it used to be. The river always flowed downstream. — Thea Harrison

There is no help from without, only from within. — James Cook

To be nervous doesn't mean you are a failure or a wimp, simply shows the reality of the journey you are embarking. — Euginia Herlihy

We are difficult. Human beings are difficult. We're difficult to ourselves, we're difficult to each other. And we are mysteries to ourselves, we are mysteries to each other. One encounters in any ordinary day far more real difficulty than one confronts in the most "intellectual" piece of work. Why is it believed that poetry, prose, painting, music should be less than we are? Why does music, why does poetry have to address us in simplified terms, when if such simplification were applied to a description of our own inner selves we would find it demeaning? — Geoffrey Hill

Our second big mistake - we thought that risk could be quantified. Our third big mistake - Alan Greenspan. The — Jade Chang