The Power Eater Quotes & Sayings

The main thing is the ability to control your instrument, which, in the actor, is yourself. Look the way you want the character to look. Sound the way you want the character to sound. Once you've trained the instrument to do what you want, you're in control, and you're free. — Geraldine Page

This lingering hint of savagery isn't necessarily a strike against fire cooking, however. To the contrary, some believe a bloody slab of beefsteak augments the power of the eater. "Whoever partakes of it," Roland Barthes wrote in Mythologies, "assimilates a bull-like strength." By comparison, the braise or stew - and particularly the braise or stew of meat that's been cut into geometric cubes and rendered tender by long hours in the pot - represents a deeper sublimation, or forgetting, of the brutal reality of this particular transaction among species. Certainly — Michael Pollan

I LIKE WHAT THE DANCER MARTHA GRAHAM ONCE said, that each of us is unique and if we didn't exist something in the world would have been lost. I wonder, then, why we are so quick to conform - and what the world has lost because we have. William Blake said about Jesus that he was "all virtue and acted from impulse, not from rules." If we are to be like him, aren't we to speak and move and do, to act upon the world and take new ground from the forces that work against our unique genius and beauty? What if part of God's message to the world was you? The true and real you? — Donald Miller

Tonight I'm not going to make love to you, Blaire. I'm going to own you. Do you hear me? — Mia Asher

If you talk about what you believe, you will attract those who believe what you believe. — Simon Sinek

Love grows wildest in the gardens of hardship. — Nadia Hashimi

I need you, Pat Peoples; I need you so fucking bad. — Matthew Quick

Morbidius Ultimatum understands that damage is done one butterfly at a time, one tree at a time, one bullet at a time". — Diane Van Der Westhuizen

We ought to make the moments notes Of happy glad Thanksgiving; The hours and days, a silent praise Of music we are living. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Democracy acknowledges the right to differ as well as the duty to settle differences peacefully. Authoritarian governments see criticism of their actions and doctrines as a challenge to combat. — Aung San Suu Kyi

The opium-eater loses none of his moral sensibilities or aspirations. He wishes and longs as earnestly as ever to realize what he believes possible, and feels to be exacted by duty; but his intellectual apprehension of what is possible infinitely outruns his power, not of execution only, but even of power to attempt. He lies under the weight of incubus and nightmare; he lies in sight of all that he would fain perform, just as a man forcibly confined to his bed by the mortal languor of a relaxing disease, who is compelled to witness injury or outrage offered to some object of his tenderest love: he curses the spells which chain him down from motion; he would lay down his life if he might but get up and walk; but he is powerless as an infant, and cannot even attempt to rise. I — Thomas De Quincey

Fresh food is a luxury everyone can afford. — David Moyer

Some books can only be written when winners turn into loosers — Bangambiki Habyarimana

To improve the oarsman you must improve the man. — Steve Fairbairn

The fact is if we followed the history of every little country in this world - in its dramatic as well as its quiet times - we would have no space left in which to live our own lives or to apply ourselves to our necessary tasks, never mind indulge in occasional pleasures, like swimming. Surely there is something to be said for drawing a circle around our attention and remaining within that circle. But how large should this circle be? — Zadie Smith

I've been blessed to find people who are smarter than I am, and they help me to execute the vision I have. — Russell Simmons

When it comes to the company you keep, be an equal opportunity enjoyer. — Robert J. Braathe

An accountability partner you only contact when you are winning isn't an accountability partner, it's a cheerleader. It's — Jon Acuff