Vertically Compressed Quotes & Sayings

...someone who doesn't say please or thank you or smile when you'd expect him to and thinks 'How are you?' means 'How are you?' and stands too close to people when he talks and never tells them, 'I think maybe perhaps such-and-such,' but always, flat-out, 'You are wrong,' and 'This is bad,' and 'She is stupid'; no shades of gray, all black and white and 'What I say goes.' — Anne Tyler

She [Beatrice] alone was still real for him, still implied meaning in the world, and beauty. Her nature became his landmark - what Melville would call, with more sobriety than we can now muster, his Greenwich Standard ... — Dan Simmons

The problem is that they don't even realize that they're walking a new road every day. They don't see that the fields are new and the seasons change. All they think about is food and water. — Paulo Coelho

On my Instagram, lots of people tag me in photos of just dudes with beards, and they're like, 'Oh my God, I met Chet Faker' and I'm like, 'That doesn't even look like me.' — Chet Faker

I tell students, when in doubt, to title their story after the smallest concrete object in their story. I warn them off plays on words, ('The Rent Also Rises'
no; 'Life in My Cat House'
no) and no grand reaches, either. 'Reverence,' 'Respect,' 'Regret,' 'Greed,' 'Adventure,' 'Retribution.' And never use the worst title of all time, 'The Gift,' a story I read six times a year. — Ron Carlson

TODAY
Yesterday was a TODAY; bygone
Everyday is a TODAY; in action...!
Tomorrow is a TODAY; imminent
We cant repossess yesterday
We cant do anything in Tomorrow;
We acquire TODAY as the day of action;
Be somebody, Do something special ;
make every TODAY, a special day...!!! — Prabhu

The problem with proximity friends is, they move away. They quit or get fired. — Chuck Palahniuk

One day I will laugh and no loneliness will fall out. — Te' V. Smith

But pity was not action. It was not love. Pity, like passion, was no more than a kind of instinct. — Shusaku Endo

film is and has always been just a subset of animation - in contrast to how critics presented the relation - if animation is understood to be the inputting of life, or the inputting of the illusion of life, into that which is flat or inert or a model or an image. — Karen Beckman