Tags Alex Quotes & Sayings

Perhaps we become accustomed to our grief and, as it becomes increasingly familiar, increasingly part of the emotional landscape, it becomes a dullness. But there is no closure, no forgetting. One mourns those one has loved who have died until one joins them. It happens soon enough. — David Rieff

He was numb: heart-numb, mind-numb, soul-numb. And the numbness, he realized, went a long way down, and a long way back. — Neil Gaiman

Noise is any pattern we don't understand. [ ... ] If we perceive something as noise, it's most likely a failure of ourselves, not a failure of the universe. — Raph Koster

People often ask if I think my life is dangerous, if I am afraid. I am much more afraid of remaining comfortable. Matthew 10:28 tells us not to fear things that can destroy the body but things that can destroy the soul. — Katie J. Davis

Background updating is absolutely the future. — Sam Altman

A lawyer is just like an attack dog, only without a conscience. — Tom Clancy

If your mind is still, you're the happiest. — Manoj Bhargava

I step closer to him and put my hand on his arm.
If he flinches slightly - if my heart contracts - I ignore it.
I'm not disgusting. I'm his daughter.

'But, Daddy? Here's what they mean to ME. They're an act of hate. They're vengeance against me, from someone I never treated badly. They're UNDESERVED. And even if they were deserved, what does that mean, exactly. That if someone takes naked pictures of me, I'm a bad person, so they get the right to call me slut on the Internet? Are you trying to tell me that just because I didn't stop Nate from aiming his camera, I deserve whatever happens to me, forever? I deserved this attack because I asked for it? Do you hear how ugly that is?'

"I never said you asked for it." He sounds different, his voice choked and unsettled.

'Yeah. You did. — Robin York

My dance classes were open to anybody, my only stipulation was that they had to come to the class every day. — Merce Cunningham

[Re: J. Edgar Hoover] His knowledge was enormous, though his mind was narrow. — Tim Weiner

I was always brought up that if you can make a difference, you should, and if you don't it's a waste. So we'll see if I can make a difference. — David Miliband

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. - Justice Louis Brandeis, Olmstead v. United States (1928) — Jane Mayer

Marks of Identity is, among other things, the expression of the process of alienation in a contemporary intellectual with respect to his own country. — Juan Goytisolo

I thought that my movie career was finished. I was quite happy to dedicate myself 100% to the theater. Surprisingly enough, I've never gotten so many work offers. It's so exciting, this feeling of a new beginning after 40. — Amy Irving

I had always been an atheist until I met Lenny. He was too wonderously complex and good for there to be no benevolent and intelligent force behind our marvelous cosmos. Lenny gave me the actual proof my fiercely skeptical mind had always demanded. Not some logical, 37-step proof of God's existence. It was a personal proof. And it was irrefutable. — Zack Love