Stojadinovic Jessica Quotes & Sayings

They were wrong, he thought. She is better than Garbo. — Suzanne Stroh

Like any form of Art, literature's mission is to make the fulfillment of our essential duties more bearable. For a creature like man, who must forge his destiny by means of thought and reflexivity, the knowledge gained from this will perforce be unbearably lucid. We know that we are beasts who have this weapon for survival, and that we are not gods creating a world with our own thoughts, and something has to make our own wisdom bearable, something has to save us from the woeful eternal fever of biological destiny. Therefore, we have invented Art: our animal selves have devised another way to ensure the survival of our species. — Muriel Barbery

What do you love doing so much that the words failure and success essentially become irrelevant? — Elizabeth Gilbert

My Writers Guild of America card is one of my proudest possessions. I was given it after being invited to write the script for a film of my last novel, 'Me Before You,' which is being made by MGM. Whenever I look at it, I think, 'I'm a Hollywood writer!' — Jojo Moyes

Even with revivals, I don't really pay attention to previous incarnations. I always just go with the script and with the director and am willing to treat it as brand new. — Kate Baldwin

The pale, cold light of the winter sunset did not beautify - it was like the light of truth itself. — Willa Cather

The really intelligent person keeps his childhood alive to his last breath.He never loses it-the wonder the child feels looking at the birds,looking at the flowers,looking at the sky ... Intelligence also has to be,in the same way,childlike. — Rajneesh

The Indian engineers had the lust for the kill that Clark loved. They were ferociously, recklessly competitive. — Michael Lewis

Two lusts breed in the soul of man: the lust for aggresion, and the lust for telling lies. If one will not allow himself to wrong others, he will wrong himself. If he doesn't come across anyone to lie to, he will lie to himself in his own thoughts. — Ryszard Kapuscinski

I am terrified at the thought that so much hideous and bad music will be put on records forever. — Arthur Sullivan

The most revolutionary aspect of technology is its mobility. Anybody can learn it. It jumps easily over barriers of race and language ... The new technology of microchips and computer software is learned much faster than the old technology of coal and iron. It took three generations of misery for the older industrial countries to master the technology of coal and iron. The new industrial countries of East Asia, South Korea, and Singapore and Taiwan, mastered the new technology and made the jump from poverty to wealth in a single generation. — Freeman Dyson

The heart and the mind ... what an enigma. — Charlie Chaplin

Time jumps. It leaps. It pours away like water through fingers. — Lauren Oliver

An unintentional life accepts everything and does nothing. An intentional life embraces only the things that will add to the mission of significance. — John C. Maxwell

There is no greater comfort than the idea that we have chosen our own misfortunes. — Jorge Luis Borges