Unharried Quotes & Sayings

For toddlers I suggest leaving their mittens on year-round, indoors and out. That way they can't get into aspirin bottles, liquor cabinets, or boxes of kitchen matches. — P. J. O'Rourke

I knew that place should be my home, but after my night in Noer's mind it seemed a peculiar pile, its streets a maze, needlessly crowded, where we slender people, so naked of fur we must make extra skins for ourselves, muddled and ambled and skipped in our dance of alliances and enmities, offenses and fancies. We thought too much; we calculated too hard. I would rather have wandered among trees, with their more meaningful conversation. I would rather have been solitary and unharried, never required to speak nor account for myself to do anything else but what come natural. — Margo Lanagan

The literature [Nobel] laureate of this year has said that an author can do anything as long as his readers believe him.
A scientist cannot do anything that is not checked and rechecked by scientists of this network before it is accepted. — Sune Bergstrom

To me it's very obvious there are huge cultural differences between Americans and Canadians. But a lot of what we are is American. — David Cronenberg

Living in a galaxy is like living in a neighborhood where the house down the street might have burned down four thousand years ago but you wouldn't know it for another three thousand years. — Amy Leach

If you are really bored with life, just meet a decent magician and have a close up magic show, he will restore inspiration in your life. — Amit Kalantri

If you're sitting in your minivan, playing your computer animated films for your children in the back seat, is it the animation that's entertaining you as you drive and listen? No, it's the storytelling. That's why we put so much importance on story. No amount of great animation will save a bad story. — John Lasseter

Though there is such a rich tradition of culture and arts, I have never been invited to perform at a concert in South India. — Zubin Mehta

I think things ultimately work out the way they're supposed to, even if it's not always the most comfortable, cushy way. — Beth Harbison

My god, Portland was fucking weird sometimes. — Karina Halle

There is in my work a very strong religious foreground and background. In the later work some of that tends to diminish, but it's certainly present in the early work. — Chaim Potok

During the golden age of movie stars, there were plenty of actresses who were deemed unattractive at the start of their careers, but struggled and finally appeared more beautiful and more iconic. Sometimes that idea of being truly iconic has something to do with not necessarily being beautiful and thus trying harder. — Karl Lagerfeld

I am a sucker for romance and I love girls and that is a terrible combination, because romance has the ability to overwhelm your perspective. — Joshua Harris

A boomerang returns back to the person who throws it.
But first, while moving in a circle, it hits its target.
So does gossip. — Vera Nazarian