Zilis Quotes & Sayings

I thought: this is how you make a human being. A human being is beautiful and sick. A human being glitters and starves. — Catherynne M Valente

I often like to think that our map of the world is wrong, that where we have centered physics, we should actually place literature as the central metaphor that we want to work out from. Because I think literature occupies the same relationship to life that life occupies to death. A book is life with one dimension pulled out of it. And life is something that lacks a dimension which death will give it. I imagine death to be a kind of release into the imagination in the sense that for characters in a book, what we experience is an unimaginable dimension of freedom. — Terence McKenna

In seeking the help of the Congress and our countrymen, I pledged no easy answers. I pledged, and asked, only toil and dedication. These the Congress and the people have given in good measure. — John F. Kennedy

It's not enough to picture their outward appearance. Give them a background and sphere of influence. — Jordan Dane

My first job now is as a mother, everything else is secondary. My kids understand that I am an actress, and they are always so surprised to hear my voice on a cartoon character, or see my face on a video box. If it ever gets to be too much though, the career and the kids, I will simply set the career aside. — Joan Cusack

The words "I should have done this back then" are a curse. Whenever they come up, they tangle around your heart and keep you from moving. They bring up all the baggage you carry and dull your emotions. From this point on is a domain where your emotions can't be dull... "I want to get faster", "I want to beat him", "This is fun"... "I want to move forward". You need to have only pure feelings like that, if you want to reach that domain! — Wataru Watanabe

Obviously this is the next frontier - once you've mastered grilling, smoking is what you're going to want to do. — Steven Raichlen

What exactly did you do for exercise, Georgiana?" he says, giving me a skeptical look. "Twirl your hair?"
"If I do it vigorously, it counts as cardio. — Lauren Layne

A lot of people are like, 'So you want to be famous.' And I'm like, 'No, I want to be good at my craft. I don't care about fame, I don't care if I even ever make it. As long as people know what I am as an actress in this business, I'm set for my career right now.' — Chloe Grace Moretz

We're involved right now in some very significant legal battles and it would be the wrong thing for me to do to step out in the middle of those battles. — Bill Scott

The difference between friendship and love is how much you can hurt each other. — Ashleigh Brilliant