Solmonson Growth Quotes & Sayings

That's what I like about the movie business: you're always in contact with wonderful and interesting people. — Jack Nicholson

I'm regarded quite asexually by a lot of people. And the people that understand me the best are nearer to what I understand about me. — David Bowie

God, Satan, Paradise, and Hell all vanished one day in my fifteenth year, when I quite abruptly lost my faith. I recall it quite vividly.I was at school in England by then. The moment of awakening happened, in fact, during a Latin lessson, and afterwards, to prove my new-found atheism, I bought myself a rather tasteless ham sandwich, and so partook for the first time of the forbidden flesh of the swine. No thunderbolt arrived to strike me down. I remember feeling that my survival confirmed the correctness of new position. I did slightly regret the loss of Paradise, though. — Salman Rushdie

All political power, all power as such, is stupid. Don't rush after it, don't be ambitious, because all ambition collects dust and only dust. If you are not disillusioned by dust, you will not be able to know what truth is. A man obsessed with ambition is not capable of knowing truth at all. Eyes full of ambition never see what is; they only see what they want to see. The ambitious mind is the wrong mind; the non-ambitious mind is the right mind. — Rajneesh

What Confucius tells us to focus on first is not how to bring stability to the world, but how to be the best possible version of ourselves. To "cultivate one's moral character" is the first step towards taking responsibility for the nation, and for society. Confucius and his disciples struggled hard to be "the best version" of themselves, but their aim in this was to better carry out their responsibilities to the society in which they lived. — Yu Dan

I'm afraid to close my eyes, I'm afraid to open them — Heather Donahue

I like the idea of playing in unison with yourself. — Richard Thompson

Rock is my child and my grandfather. — Chuck Berry

This was the year he rode the subway to the ends of the city, two hundred miles of track. — Don DeLillo

If the human body recognized agony and frustration, people would never run marathons, have babies, or play baseball. — Carlton Fisk