Wenglor Opt2040 Quotes & Sayings

I like situational comedy when people are being completely serious and yet you can find something extremely funny, not jokes. — Bruce Robinson

The Greek philosopher Epictetus said, First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. — Laini Taylor

If a man is good, he is good to himself. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Letting go is the lesson. Letting go is always the lesson. Have you ever noticed how much of our agony is all tied up with craving and loss? — Susan Gordon Lydon

Why was it, she sometimes wondered, that in dreams we can't do the simplest things? Like a crying puppy is standing on some broken glass and you want to pick it up and brush the shards off its pads but you can't because you're balancing a ball on your head. Or you're driving and there's this old guy on crutches and you go, to Mr. Feder, your Driver's Ed teacher, Should I swerve? And he's like, Uh, probably. But then you hear this big clunk and Feder makes a negative mark in his book. — George Saunders

We all have a cross-gender character: Every woman has a man that they can play, and every man has a woman that they can play. — Gael Garcia Bernal

I think everybody likes to play the villain. They're always much more interesting characters. — Maria Doyle Kennedy

Enemies Teach. Friends Preach. — Tapan Ghosh

Every wild apple shrub excites our expectation thus, somewhat as every wild child. It is, perhaps, a prince in disguise. What a lesson to man! So are human beings, referred to the highest standard, the celestial fruit which they suggest and aspire to bear, browsed on by fate; and only the most persistent and strongest genius defends itself and prevails, sends a tender scion upward at last, and drops its perfect fruit on the ungrateful earth. Poets and philosophers and statesmen thus spring up in the country pastures, and outlast the hosts of unoriginal men. — Henry David Thoreau

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution. — Abraham Lincoln

I'm very interested in the emotional honesty of things, which at times looks kind of ugly and at times looks scary and not polished, and so there were many times when I would audition for something and I would come from, for me, a very honest place, but it's completely not what they're looking for for that type of material. But I was always very steadfast in what I was interested in, and I felt like, I'm gonna tell the truth as best as I know it. And you eventually start to understand that the projects find you that meet up with that. It takes as long as it takes, and for me it took like 20 years, but I'm really glad. You know, the jobs always ultimately end up going to the person who's supposed to tell that story, and those weren't my stories to tell. — Brie Larson