Spillett Apd Quotes & Sayings

How long can you pretend to be something before you aren't pretending anymore? — Daniel Abraham

She cast her fragrance and her radiance over me. I ought never to have run away from her ... I ought to have guessed all the affection that lay behind her poor little stratagems. Flowers are so inconsistent! But I was too young to know how to love her ... — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

There is some strange sense in which distance and closeness are sisters, the two sides of the one experience. Distance awakens longing; closeness is belonging. Yet they are always in a dynamic interflow with each other. When we fix or locate them definitively, we injure our growth. It is an interesting imaginative exercise to interchange them: to consider what is near as distant and to consider the distant as intimate. — John O'Donohue

I am going to the USA to catch sight of a wild porcupine and to give some lectures. — Sigmund Freud

Cats, on the other hand, are similar to Vulcans - dispassionate, contemplative and pointy-eared. — George Takei

If your work is going to draw from life, you'd better work very hard to keep up with reality. — Lawrence Kasdan

Glacial pace is actually an incorrect concept. The glaciers move a lot faster and they react a lot faster than people imagine. — James Balog

I don't know about you, but I love going on trips - especially with my family. — Becky G

Try not to cry too much because it can be pretty heart-breaking and pretty hard. — Maggie Smith

Having no destination,
I am never lost. — Ikkyu

To be no more than scholarly reflection on its object from one particular standpoint, which is anyway one legitimate standpoint among others. — Hans Kung

Of what I learned at Yale," writes Lewis Lapham, "I learned in what I now remember as one long, wayward conversation in the only all-night restaurant on Chapel Street. The topics under discussion - God, man, existence, Alfred Prufrock's peach - were borrowed from the same anthology of large abstraction that supplied the texts for English 10 or Philosophy 116." The classroom is the grain of sand; it's up to you to make the pearl. — William Deresiewicz

Time is my greatest enemy. — Evita Peron

Reading a great book causes jolts and frights. — Mason Cooley