Tonics And Elixirs Quotes & Sayings

Catherine thought Simon was in the locket, and in heaven, and with them still. Lucas hoped she didn't expect him to be happy about having so many Simons to contend with. — Michael Cunningham

The banana flavour of his accidental conception, and the banana theme of his accidental death, now all seemed to conspire against him and rather suggest the universe, Mr Fate or whoever did have some sort of master plan after all. Despite all his earlier conjecturing, maybe the universe, Mr Fate or whoever was laughing its fat and meddling head at him. The outlandish evidence did seem to speak for itself, truly suggesting a mocking narrative devised by some mischievous author because quite simply a banana condom had brought Midnight into the world and a banana skin had seen him out. Putting those two seeming truths together, Midnight was once again forced to ask such confused and searching questions like:
What is this place, where am I heading? And what's the deal with all the ruddy bananas? — Tom Conrad

I think it's really, really important to mix it up as an actor, to try to get as much kind of varied experience as you can, not only for your own personal growth as an actor but for the audience to keep them guessing about what you're going to do. — Liev Schreiber

In the world according to the positivist, the inspiring thing about scrambled eggs is that any way you turn them they're sunny side up. In the world according to the existentialist, the hopeless thing about scrambled eggs is that any way you turn them they're scrambled. — Tom Robbins

Love is an active construction, and choice, not just an encounter that happens by chance. — Masha Tupitsyn

ETHNOMAGNETISM: The tendency of young people to live in emotionally demonstrative, more unrestrained ethnic neighborhoods: 'You wouldn't understand it there, mother-they hug where I live now.' — Douglas Coupland

The point is the 'me' that you see before you is not the 'me' in my private little space, shape-shifting into the writing role, nor is it the 'me' that works with the actors. Here, at the end of the film doing interviews, I feel like I'm in disguise. — Julia Leigh

I've been to the Empire State Building with four friends, and it was very beautiful at that time around midnight. — Takeru Kobayashi

Your body belongs to you alone. Touching it is a privilege, and it's up to you to grant it. — Ilona Andrews

Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

In a successful painting everything is integral - all the parts belong to the whole. If you remove an aspect or element you are removing its wholeness. — Richard Diebenkorn

It's not dissimilar to what we see with the president of Russia, who uses a minority there, the lesbian, gay, bisexual community ... and he goes after them with great relish because he knows that it's going to resonate with a part of the population. — Thomas Mulcair

Within you is everything you need; hold on to that and let go of everything else. — Darryl Diptee

If you can't pay the bill, I'll pay it for you."
"Thanks," I said, and turned my head to the side. "But in exchange for what? — Shaye Evans