Vastrado Quotes & Sayings

There are three huge, titanic, space movies which if you ever make a film [about space] you cannot avoid. You may want to avoid them but you cannot. I've never known a genre like it where you are dictated to by these films, 2001, Alien, and Tarkovsky's Solaris. — Danny Boyle

The two of them prayed to Jesus that they might learn their lessons sooner rather than later, and that they would be gentle lessons rather than hard lessons. — Jane Smiley

I've read that if an avalanche buries you and you're lying there underneath all that snow, you can't tell which way is up or down. You want to dig yourself out but pick the wrong way, and you dig yourself to your own demise. — Khaled Hosseini

Intention of seeking attention is an addiction. A vicious cycle which damages your health, finances and relationships. It will NOT improve your self-image, increase your self-worth or fulfill the need of genuine praise. — Maddy Malhotra

The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority. — Henrik Ibsen

The agreement or disagreement or its sense with reality constitutes its truth or falsity. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

The intention of each lesson is getting you to recognize what you're doing, kinesthetically. Once you're conscious of it, you then can choose whether to continue doing the same thing or not. — F. Matthias Alexander

A day without laughter is a day wasted. — Nicolas Chamfort

Enlightenment is the inner light of wisdom that is permanently free from all mistaken appearance, and whose function is to bestow mental peace upon each and every living being every day. — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

I write short stories when a little idea occurs to me, that I know isn't a part of a novel that will stand by itself and should be concentrated. — Roddy Doyle

We tried to everything right, now we were forced to do everything wrong and it was working. — Augusten Burroughs

I'm not a twentieth-century novelist, I'm not modern, and certainly not postmodern. I follow the form of the nineteenth-century novel; that was the century that produced the models of the form. I'm old-fashioned, a storyteller. I'm not an analyst, and I'm not an intellectual. — John Irving