Untraversed Quotes & Sayings

Ben and I live like hermits. The night of a concert, we'll be like, 'Do you think we can get tickets?' And everybody is like, 'No, why didn't you do this earlier?' — Melissa McCarthy

Always remember, my little angel of mercy, it's the strays that are feral.... — Suzanne Steele

I always used to wonder why American actors were getting fat, then I made a U.S. movie. I'm seeing all the food every day, and there's lots of waiting around because making an American movie is very slow. — Donnie Yen

The camera has a mind of its own
its own point of view. Then the human bearer of time stumbles into the camera's gaze
the camera's domain of pristine space hitherto untraversed is now contaminated by human temporality. Intrusion occurs, but the camera remains transfixed by its object. It doesn't care. The camera has no human fears. — Frank Lentricchia

He who wishes to gain understanding, must first depart from devilish ways. — Lailah Gifty Akita

There is a desert on the moon where the dreamer sinks so deeply into the ground that she reaches hell. — C. G. Jung

I don't give interviews. — Beny Steinmetz

There are times when we stop, we sit still. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper. — James Carroll

I'm the only one in my family with an American accent. — Lola Kirke

You often see shocks in the League Cup, even when you don't expect them — Jan Molby

I hadn't considered the possibility that I might find someone who would understand what I had endured and want me anyway, even though I wasn't whole. — Helena Hunting

Toward the end of his second decade in the airport, Clark was thinking about how lucky he'd been. Not just the mere fact of survival, which was of course remarkable in and of itself, but to have seen one world end and another begin. And not just to have seen the remembered splendors of the former world, the space shuttles and the electrical grid and the amplified guitars, the computers that could be held in the palm of a hand and the high-speed trains between cities, but to have lived among those wonders for so long. To have dwelt in that spectacular world for fifty-one years of his life. Sometimes he lay awake in Concourse B of the Severn City Airport and thought, "I was there," and the thought pierced him through with an admixture of sadness and exhilaration. — Emily St. John Mandel

Something terrible happened in Salem in 1692 . . . but it isn't what you think! — Suzy Witten

Sometimes it seems that half of the fairy tales of the world are some form of Cinderella, ugly duckling, or poor boy story, telling of the little person who has no power or possessions who ends up being king or queen, prince or princess. We write it off as wishful dreaming, when it is actually the foundational pattern of disguise or amnesia, loss, and recovery. Every Beauty is sleeping, it seems, before it can meet its Prince. The duckling must be "ugly," or there will be no story. The knight errant must be wounded, or he will never even know what the Holy Grail is, much less find it. Jesus must be crucified, or there can be no resurrection. It is written in our hardwiring, but can only be heard at the soul level. It will usually be resisted and opposed at the ego level. — Richard Rohr

Nothing weighs on me. I don't feel any weight. — James Rosenquist

You know all the ways you can kill a girl?
God, there are so many. — Courtney Summers

You nurslings of Protestantism astonish me. You unguarded Englishwomen walk calmly amidst red-hot ploughshares and escape burning. I believe, if some of you were thrown into Nebuchadnezzar's hottest furnace you would issue forth untraversed by the smell of fire. — Charlotte Bronte