Famous Quotes Ipsum

When i get a little money, i buy books; and, if any is left, i buy food and clothes. mostly, we authors must repeat ourselves--that's the truth. we have two or three great moving experiences in our lives--experiences so great and moving that it doesn't seem at the time that anyone else has been so caught up and pounded and dazzled and astonished and beaten and broken and rescued and illuminated and rewarded and humbled in just that way ever before. hell has no fury like women's fury. the difference between the possible and the impossible lies in a person's determination. you're all i notice in a crowded room..

I don't want my hair cut! i don't want my eyebrows up or down. i want them right where they are! i'm leaving now, and if anyone so much as makes a move to stop me, there'll be plenty of hair cut and it won't be mine! when i get a little money, i buy books; and, if any is left, i buy food and clothes. a warm smile is the universal language of kindness. the greatest complexity is the greatest simplicity. the more "complex" a system is, the more simple is its design. indeed, it is utterly elegant in its simplicity. the master understands this. that is why a highly evolved being lives in utter simplicity. these qualities are rare enough in a world where sexual performance has become as obligatory as sexual abstinence - or the pretension to it - once was. the worst by-product of the so-called sexual revolution is the substitution of performance for passion. what do you experience with your first mouthful of hot fudge sundae? its not surprising that we carry it over to describe the intensity of love and sex. there has never been an answer. there never will be an answer. that's the answer. anyone can look for fashion in a boutique or history in a museum. the creative explorer looks for history in a hardware store and fashion in an airport. the cure for everything is salt water: sweat, tears, or the sea. i often wonder: suppose we could begin life over again, knowing what we were doing? suppose we could use one life, already ended, as sort of a rough draft for another? i think that every one of us would try, more than anything else, not to repeat himself, at the very least he would rearrange his manner of life, he would make sure of rooms like these, with flowers and light... give me a museum and i'll fill it. hollywood is a place where they'll pay you 50,000 dollars for a kiss and 50 cents for your soul. i am young. i am younger each year at the first snow. when i see it, suddenly, in the air, all little and white and moving; then i am in love again and very young and i believe everything. christ is in the manger and santa in heaven. i live my life in widening rings..

The individual is born of nature, but the artist is born of that individual, yearning to transcend the merely "natural" and to make complete that which, existentially, is forever incomplete, unrealized. freedom lies in being bold. he who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying. when you come to the edge of all the light you know, and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen: there will be something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly. for as long as i can remember, i had been transparent to myself, unselfconscious, learning, doing, most of every day. now i was in my own way; i myself was a dark object i could not ignore. i couldn't remember how to forget myself. i didn't want to think about myself, to reckon myself in, to deal with myself every livelong minute on top of everything else - but swerve as i might, i couldn't avoid it. i was a boulder blocking my own path. i was a dog barking between my own ears, a barking dog who wouldn't hush. so this was adolescence..... and may these characters remain / when all is ruin once again i would rather be kicked with a foot than be overcome by a loud voice speaking cruel words. metaphors are not to be trifled with. a single metaphor can give birth to love. i am woman, hear me roar! i have full cause of weeping, but this heart shall break into a hundred thousand flaws ere i'll weep. i look upon death to be as necessary to the constitution as sleep. we shall rise again refreshed in the morning. oh help! i'd better go back. oh bother! i shall have to go on. i can't do either! oh help and bother! for tomorrow may rain, so i'll follow the sun. the sun is always shining. even though clouds may come along and obscure the sun for awhile, the sun is always shining. the sun never stops shining. and even though the earth turns, and the sun appears to go down, it never stops shining. it is not good for all our wishes to be fulfilled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest. if i had a formula for bypassing trouble, i wouldn't pass it around. wouldn't be doing anybody a favor. trouble creates a capacity to handle it. i don't say embrace trouble. that's as bad as treating it as an enemy. but i do say, meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it. there is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go. i glory in this world of men and women, torn with troubles, yet living on to love and laugh through it all..