Tormis 10 Quotes & Sayings

If you're not living on the edge you're taking up too much space. — Stephen Hunt

No matter what is going on around or within you, everything at some point must change. It's harder to accept when things are great - and a source of strength when change is what you need. Either way, it reminds me to try my best to be fully present in every moment. — Kandyse McClure

This is the problem with having a barrier between you and everyone else - you see it, but they don't. They talk to you, but you can't talk back to them. — David Levithan

Knightley Academy stood out against the moonlight in silhouette, a ramshackle collection of chimneys, turrets and gables. Both boys stopped to take in the sight of the manicured lawns and tangled woods, the soaring chapel and the ivy-covered brick of the headmaster's house. They were home. For this, Henry felt, was home. Not some foreign castle encircled by guard towers, but this cozy, bizarre assortment of buildings with its gossiping kitchen maids and eccentric professors and clever students. — Violet Haberdasher

One not only wants to be understood when one writes, but also quite as certainly not to be understood. It is by no means an objection to a book when someone finds it unintelligible: perhaps this might just have been the intention of its author, perhaps he did not want to be understood by "anyone". A distinguished intellect and taste, when it wants to communicate its thoughts, always selects its hearers; by selecting them, it at the same time closes its barriers against "the others". It is there that all the more refined laws of style have their origin: they at the same time keep off, they create distance, they prevent "access" (intelligibility, as we have said,) while they open the ears of those who are acoustically related to them. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Fundamentally, Eva is just my life copied out onto film. I'm [still] alive, so the story hasn't finished. — Hideaki Anno

An idea whose time has come cannot be stopped by any army or any force. — Ron Paul

When I first started painting candyland imagery, I was looking for the best possible metaphor for everything that is pleasure, desire and insatiability. — Will Cotton

He wants to get back together," she finished.
"And you said ... ?" he tried to keep his tone disinterested.
"I haven't said anything," she said. "You interrupted me before I could answer him."
He congratulated himself on his excellent timing. — Jena Leigh

It's my party and I'll cry if I want to. — Lesley Gore

we should not fill ourselves with hopes which, being empty of God's Word, are like so much wind. On — John Calvin