Sprawling Untidy Quotes & Sayings

I guess I'm just fiercely independent. — Anne Wojcicki

The people on the QVC shopping channel convince me that life is worth living. They see the good in everything. People who go to counselling should actually go to a room with a QVC seller for half an hour and let them find the qualities within them. For example, they'd look at me and say, 'To anybody else this looks like a stomach but, actually, his feet never get wet in the rain. — Johnny Vegas

Rock bottom is an inability to cope with the commonplace that is so extreme it makes even the grandest and loveliest things unbearable ... Rock bottom is everything out of focus. It's a failure of vision, a failure to see the world as it is, to see the good in what it is, and only to wonder why the hell things look the way they do and not some other way. — Elizabeth Wurtzel

I think that people will find a tremendous joy and fulfillment in service to other human beings, and that often this is what is missing in their lives. — Ram Dass

The soul of a child is as complicated and full of contradictions as our soul is. — Janusz Korczak

The republic was no longer a novelty, and here people only appreciate novelties. — Jose Saramago

It is the most powerful creation to have life growing inside of you. There is no bigger gift. — Beyonce Knowles

My Dad has been a feminist, way before I learnt how to spell the word. — Shahla Khan

It is an oyster, with small shells clinging to its humped back. Sprawling and uneven, it has the irregularity of something growing. It looks rather like the house of a big family, pushing out one addition after another to hold its teeming life - here a sleeping porch for the children, and there a veranda for the play-pen; here a garage for the extra car and there a shed for the bicycles. It amuses me because it seems so much like my life at the moment, like most women's lives in the middle years of marriage. It is untidy, spread out in all directions, heavily encrusted with accumulations ... — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

What's so great about writing?"
"You can make anything true — Adi Alsaid

Blind obedience is itself an abuse of human morality. It is a misuse of the human soul in the name of religious commitment. It is a sin against individual conscience. It makes moral children of the adults from whom moral agency is required. It makes a vow, which is meant to require religious figures to listen always to the law of God, beholden first to the laws of very human organizations in the person of very human authorities. It is a law that isn't even working in the military and can never substitute for personal morality. — Joan D. Chittister

I've done 33 Sherlock Holmes stories and bits of them are all right. But the definitive Sherlock Holmes is really in everyone's head. No actor can fit into that category because every reader has his own ideal. — Jeremy Brett

I hate this process. All it is is a confirmation of the superiority of the Golds. It takes all this to make me their physical equal. No wonder we serve them. It — Pierce Brown