Turtles All The Way Down Ocd Quotes & Sayings

I wonder if my father, given the chance, would have wished to go back to the time before he made all that money, when he just had one store and we rented a tiny apartment in Queens. He worked hard and had worries but he had a joy then that he never seemed to regain once the money started coming in. He might turn on the radio and dance cheek to cheek with my mother. He worked on his car himself, a used green Impala with carburetor trouble. They had lots of Korean friends that they met in church and then even in the street, and when they talked in public there was a shared sense of how lucky they were, to be in America but still have countrymen near. — Chang-rae Lee

I found Him in the shining of the stars,
I marked Him in the flowering of His fields,
But in His ways with men I find Him not.
I waged His wars, and now I pass and die.
O me! for why is all around us here
As if some lesser god had made the world,
But had not force to shape it as he would,
Till the High God behold it from beyond,
And enter it, and make it beautiful? — Alfred Tennyson

I was always into fashion, and used to go on spending sprees when I was a university student in Miami. My father would be furious, but I would always say, 'It was an emergency! I had a party to go to!' — Carmen Busquets

I saw a moving sight the other morning before breakfast in a little hotel where I slept in the dusty fields. The young man of the house shot a little wolf called coyote in the early morning. The little heroic animal lay on the ground, with his big furry ears, and his clean white teeth, and his little cheerful body, but his little brave life was gone. It made me think how brave all living things are. Here little coyote was, without any clothes or house or books or anything, with nothing to pay his way with, and risking his life so cheerfully - and losing it - just to see if he could pick up a meal near the hotel. He was doing his coyote-business like a hero, and you must do your boy-business, and I my man-business bravely, too, or else we won't be worth as much as a little coyote. — William James

Wars almost never end the way starters had in mind. — Malcolm Forbes

The ghosts of Manhattan are not the spirits of the propertied classes; these are entombed in their names, their works, their constructions. New York's ghosts are the unresting souls of the poor, the marginal, the dispossessed, the depraved, the defective, the recalcitrant. They are the guardian spirits of the urban wilderness in which they lived and died. Unrecognized by the history that is common knowledge, they push invisibly behind it to erect their memorials in the collective unconscious. — Luc Sante

Paint your vision, develop tasks, prioritize action steps and do it now. — Pat Croce

money distorts truth like a hippo in a thong. — Scott Adams

I left home when I was 17 with Joe Williams. — David Edwards

The architecture of a story can be a little bit different if it's a true story. — Joel Coen

When I am experiencing a complex story or novel, the broader planes, and also details, tend to fall away. — Jhumpa Lahiri

A lot of people seem to get preoccupied with what I'm wearing as opposed to the music. — Sheryl Crow

I talked to the ball a lot of times in my career. I yelled, "Go foul. Go foul." — Lefty Gomez

How do we find a way out? By realizing that there's no place to go, that there's no way out, that there's no way in. All that exists is the Self. — Frederick Lenz

I think some of our most talented people are not going to pick the arts as a way that they're going to spend their lives. — Anna Deavere Smith