Joshua Ferris Quotes
We suffered failures of imagination just like everyone else, our daring was wanting, and our daily contentment too nearly adequate for us to give it up.
Joshua Ferris
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I know a lot about Judy Garland. She was born in 1922, and I think she died in '69. When I was little, like, when I was 8, I knew all of her husbands' names.
Kate Micucci
The truth is, there's an information blockade in America, and it must be broken. In order to find crucial facts, numbers and outside perspectives, a person must spend an hour searching and cross-searching on the computer.
Adam McKay
I'm superstitious... but not like wear the same underwear for two weeks superstitious.
Kate Hudson
I tell you, in this world, being a little crazy helps to keep you sane.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Let thy step be slow and steady, that thou stumble not.
Ieyasu Tokugawa
I knew I would get offers to play the villain after 'Kick,' and I had already decided to reject all of them.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui
Seventy per cent humidity is ideal for vocal cords.
Bjork
When ice appears out of doors, and boys seize it up while it is solid, at first they experience new pleasures. But in the end their pride will not agree to let it go, but their acquisition is not good for them if it stays in their hands. In the same way an identical desire drives lovers to act and not to act.
Sophocles
One day some people came to the master and asked: How can you be happy in a world of such impermanence, where you cannot protect your loved ones from harm, illness or death? The master held up a glass and said: Someone gave me this glass; It holds my water admirably and it glistens in the sunlight. I touch it and it rings! One day the wind may blow it off the shelf, or my elbow may knock it from the table. I know this glass is already broken, so I enjoy it - incredibly.
Ajahn Chah
I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.
Frida Kahlo
I get irritated with the world. I get irritated with politicians. I get very irritated with governments and with corporations, but in terms of imagination - my imagination is always fertile. I'm either thinking of my own things or constantly engaged by the things that other people do.
Patti Smith
We suffered failures of imagination just like everyone else, our daring was wanting, and our daily contentment too nearly adequate for us to give it up.
Joshua Ferris