Tolak 4 Quotes & Sayings

[In art] you are telling the reader or the listener or the viewer something he already knows but which he doesn't quite know that he knows, so that in the action of communication he experiences a recognition, a feeling that he has been there before, a shock of recognition. — Walker Percy

It's for survival. You need to be prepared for novel experiences because often they signal danger. If you live in a jungle full of fragrant flowers, you have to stop being so overwhelmed by the lovely smell because otherwise you couldn't smell a predator. That's why your brain is considered a discounting mechanism. It's literally a matter of survival." "That's cool. — Maria Semple

Left to me, the whole purpose of government is for the security of the citizens, like the security of lives and property. — Ibrahim Babangida

Life packed a clever one-two punch: cruelty and absurdity. — Dean Koontz

I was not such a great student, .. So, when I graduated high school, I went to work cooking. I cooked a little at home, but back then, cooking wasn't really a profession that you aspired to, unless your family was in the business. I looked at it as a job. My first job was at Joe Allen's, and I remember there was a photo over the bar of the Triple Dead Heat from the 1944 Carter Handicap. — Bobby Flay

Most evolving lineages, human or otherwise, when threatened with extinction, don't do anything special to avoid it. — George C. Williams

I am shy - going to parties kills me. — Anna Maxwell Martin

Sometimes we're not even aware that we're afraid. — Spencer Johnson

No one is ever going to give you something that they're too afraid to even claim for themselves. People don't know themselves, so they don't like to see other people figure it out and live their lives in ways that they themselves cannot. So they try to box you in, and limit you, so they don't feel inadequate. But you don't need their approval- the only person who ever, ever limits you is yourself. — Danielle Jordan

I ended up performing on a full time basis and I never got to Julliard at all. — Tom Glazer

Reading Shakespeare is sometimes like looking through a window into a dark room. You don't see in. You see nothing but a reflection of yourself unable to see in. An unflattering image of yourself blind. — Antony Sher

I don't think men talk as much as women, but when we have something on our minds we'll get it out. — Ray Romano

If you are not a clearly defined human being, it is very hard to define your image ... What I've realized in my own journey in fashion is that I'm not that defined. — Evangeline Lilly