Tyracent Quotes & Sayings

Lie on your back and keep your eyes open. If they start to close, focus on keeping them open. This trick works because it is the opposite of "trying to fall asleep," which is impossible. — Deepak Chopra

I rewrote the ending of 'Farewell to Arms' 39 times before I was satisfied. — Ernest Hemingway,

There's April in her hair. Motion and stillness. Wings and earth. There are tears, and there is ... friendship. There is velvet, and traveling, and distance, bones and blood, summer coming again as it always does, love. — Laura Kasischke

Haekel's reasoning is simple: humans are nature, they are part of, and a result of, evolution. Our actions and our thoughts are products of this evolution. Accordingly, when humans come to know something, ultimately it reveals their own nature. Our knowledge
which has developed in and is subject to the laws of nature
is in itself nature (and according to Haeckel, nothing more.) The draftsman, his sensory organs, his motor activity, are results of a development with which, in the end, nature merely represents itself. — Ernst Haeckel

he inadvertently opened the door to a storeroom on the station and found it full of aircrew uniforms on hangers. He thought they must be replacement issue until he looked more closely and saw the brevets and stripes and ribbon medals and realized they had come off the bodies of the dead and injured. The empty uniforms would have provided a poetic image if he hadn't more or less relinquished poetry by then. — Kate Atkinson

If there is a life after this one, he said, let me meet you in it, James Carstairs. — Cassandra Clare

Why be narrow-minded, why cut ourselves off from any of these rich heritages when ... we have the freedom to make the most of the best in all techniques? There are no prohibitions against it. All it takes is a little wisdom, imagination and courageous experimentation. — Michael Chekhov

Discoveries aren't made by one person exploring by themselves. And discoveries aren't made overnight. People don't see the thousands of hours that go into it. — Sarah Parcak

True love is when your partner will pull into a drive-through at two in the morning and not judge you as you eat french fries with a side of both strawberry thickshake and coffee. — Sean Kennedy

The perpetual mourner
the grief that can never be healed
is innocently enough felt to be wearisome by the rest of the world. And my sense of desolation increases. Each day seems a new beginning
a new acquaintance with grief. — George Eliot

Jesus Christ, Noah, it's like you want it to be complicated. Win the girl. Then keep her. Don't let her go. Get it straight. One of us needs to get it right and, out of the two of us, you're the one who has a shot. — Katie McGarry

You can't really move forward until you look back.
[From Remaking America panel discussion at George Washington University] — Cornel West

I find it strange when people can't relate to kids, because you were a kid once, you know? — Joel Edgerton

I started to write things down, as a very young child, wanting to find a way to remember - to keep close, somehow - moments that made an impression on me. — Anne Michaels

a cynic is one who has given up but not yet shut up. Commit — Kerry A. Robinson