Successfully Graduated Quotes & Sayings

It kind of irritates me that I'm seen as this pretty face. People also say I'm too thin. The truth is pretty people aren't as accepted as other people. It comes with all these stigmas. — Mischa Barton

Never make eye contact with anyone while eating a banana — Harry Styles

Imitation is the sincerest form of insecurity. — Polly Bergen

TV stars are cool. Even if their characters are less than admirable, they come across as somehow sympathetic, maybe even neighborly. They are, after all, people you invite into your home every week. If you don't like them, you won't watch them.

Movie stars, by contrast, are hot. They have to blaze so fiercely that they fill a screen forty feet high and demand the attention of a crowded theater.

That's why very few TV stars have graduated successfully to features. It requires not only different skills but a different personality. You have to go from amiable to commanding.

Likewise, some movie stars are simply too big for television. Jack Nicholson is riveting on-screen, but you wouldn't want him in your living room week after week. The television simply couldn't contain his personality. — Walter Jon Williams

And when the book of Daniel was showed to him (Alexander the Great) wherein Daniel declared that one of the Greeks should destroy the empire of the Persians, he supposed that himself was the person intended. — Josephus

If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch indeed who will not tell them to him. — William Penn

Its the same everywhere. If you want big grief, look to the ladies. — Terry Pratchett

There is no such thing as a true account of anything. — Gore Vidal

I made my name". What does this mean? It means that a man has successfully graduated through the process of inner self-development — Sunday Adelaja

Complaint is the largest tribute heaven receives and the sincerest part of our devotion. — Jonathan Swift

I am never five minutes into stripping the clutter from my life before I start running into the clutter that is my life. — Robert Breault

What you have despised in yourself
as a thorn opens into a rose. — Rumi

All right. This was no time to crumble. I'd been through an excessive amount of terrifying events. So I needed to take that scary little rabbit hole I was about to dive down, fold it neatly in the palm of my hand, and shove it into my pocket, my Can't Deal With This Now Pocket. Later, when I could process this, I'd take that journey. Until then, I wouldn't try to comprehend, rationalize, or analyze — Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

Those sages of the ancient world, unbound by dogma of any kind, thought as we do in terms of physics, or rather, physiology, as applied to the whole universe: they envisaged the end of man and the dying out of this sphere. — Marguerite Yourcenar

Look within.
Within you is the hidden God.
Within you is the immortal soul.
Within you is the inexhaustible spiritual treasure.
Within you is the ocean of bliss.
Look within for the happiness which you have sought in vain. — Sivananda

An anxiety for being me, forever trapped in myself, floods my whole being without finding a way out, shaping me into tenderness, fear, sorrow and desolation.
An inexplicable surfeit of absurd grief, a sorrow so lonely, so bereft, so metaphysically mine ... — Fernando Pessoa