Tenenbaums Crossword Quotes & Sayings

Excite the soul, and the weather and the town and your condition in the world all disappear; the world itself loses its solidity, nothing remains but the soul and the Divine Presence in which it lives. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The world was here before you,
and will exist after you.
You are not the center of the universe,
nor are you its circumference. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Grandma says there's more of him."
"What?"
"Persons like him, in the world."
"Ah," says Ma.
"Is it true?"
"Yeah. But the tricky thing is, there's far more people in the middle."
"Where?"
Ma's staring out the window but I don't know at what. "Somewhere between good and bad," she says. "Bits of both stuck together. — Emma Donoghue

I refuse to put make-up on just because the paparazzi are on my doorstep. I find it morally wrong. — Lily Allen

The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That's Acting 101. — Vincent D'Onofrio

When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
[As attributed by Alastair Reid in Neruda and Borges, The New Yorker, June 24, 1996; as well as in The Talk of the Town, The New Yorker, July 7, 1986] — Jorge Luis Borges

Life is a loaded gun
that looks right at you with a yellow eye. — Billy Collins

Usually, if you have a new idea, you very rarely break through to anything like recognizable development or implementation of that idea the first time around - it takes two or three goes for the research community to return to the topic. — Martin Fleischmann

For Darkness Shows the Stars is a breath-taking romance about opening your mind to the future and your heart to the one person you know who can break it. — Diana Peterfreund

I meant does it hurt when you hide every last shred of your individuality and self worth behind acres of silk and cups of powder and smiles that never, no matter how hard you try, reach your eyes? — Melissa De La Cruz

I learned to take those experiences that were difficult in my life and in the adversity that I had overcome to use it for a positive change. — Dominique Moceanu

Becoming a true horseman is learning what to do at that moment when things start to unravel. — Thomas Nye

Perhaps one of the most powerful things the contemporary church could do is to confess our sins to the world, the humbly get on our knees and repent for the terrible things we have done in the name of God. — Shane Claiborne