Tsegaye Dendena Quotes & Sayings

Rather he consoled himself with the fact that, in the real world, when he looked closely into the darkness he might find the presence of a light, damaged and bruised, but a little light all the same. — Colum McCann

And I was afraid. She frightens me because she can knock me down with a word. Because she does not know that writing is walking on a dizzying silence setting one word after the other on emptiness. Writing is miraculous and terrifying like the flight of a bird who has no wings but flings itself out and only gets wings by flying. — Helene Cixous

As we slam you with more and more devastating blows of the nagual, at the same time, we strengthen and clear the tonal so that it can easily withstand them - so there is no loss in continuity of consciousness. — Frederick Lenz

I was about 6 or 7, I would have said I wanted to be an actor and an artist. And that just kind of kept honing itself around film and getting closer to film. — Todd Haynes

Can you rework your past, the grit that rubs in you, until it is shiny and smooth as a pearl? — Anna Funder

A big part of being an actress specifically is feeling entitled to your artistic opinion, feeling that it means something, and being able to stand by it. — Maggie Gyllenhaal

You bookish little pervert. — Rachel Cohn

This is your life so fill it with beauty and love. — Debasish Mridha

I know I've lost my mind. But I'm not concerned, because it's the first thing I've lost in a long time that actually feels good. — Jonathan Evison

The thing about people who work in finance is that they consider their job infinitely more important than anything or anyone, and so it's perfectly legitimate to tell everyone else to fuck off because they have a conference call with Dubai. — Jonathan Tropper

Robert Frost liked to distinguish between grievances (complaints) and griefs (sorrows). He even suggested that grievances, which are propagandistic, should be restricted to prose, leaving poetry free to go its way in tears. — Edward Hirsch