Edie Sedgwick Quotes
I say the word death a lot … think of it as … primal relations, opposite, so if I say death a lot, it means I'm concerned with life. It's true.
Quotes to Explore
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The yogi offers his labyrinthine human longings to a monotheistic bonfire dedicated to the unparalleled God. This is indeed the true yogic fire ceremony, in which all past and present desires are fuel consumed by love divine.
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I want to do my hard dives really well, I want to see what my true potential in this sport really is. I want to grasp that.
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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The divorce was the toughest thing in my life. It still hurts.
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Life histories tell you just about everything you need to know about an animal.
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My parents divorced when I was very, very young, but they maintained an incredibly amicable relationship. They were great partners, they were great parents, and they were great friends throughout my whole life until I was about 25, at which point they realized that they could relinquish; they could call it and move on.
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We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.
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I told as much of my life as I could to encourage people: to encourage others to get to where they should be, where they want to be.
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I have both joyful and heartbreaking moments in life, even now. Stardom doesn't give us everything.
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If life is a checker game, someone else is moving the pieces. It isn't us. Don't be surprised by amazing coincidences. There are no accidents. Consider, as I learned to do, the incredible interconnectedness of all of life.
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We weren't dirt poor, but there was no spare money kicking around. While it was very much understood that the way to a better life was through education, books were a luxury we couldn't afford. But when I was six, we actually moved opposite the central library, and that became my home from home.
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Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
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No man has a right to expect to succeed in life unless he understands his business, and nobody can understand his business thoroughly unless he learns it by personal application and experience.
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Life - how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.
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I want to talk about jobs and health care and pension security and what we're going to do to stop the brain drain in Ohio and make it possible for our young people to stay here and build a life in Ohio rather than in Pennsylvania or West Virginia or God knows where.
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A book tour is not a good opportunity to let your mind wander. You have to pay attention, remember salespeople's and interviewers' names, succinctly summarize your book in a 'selling' way, and so on.
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I was quite satisfied with my creative life. I've always had reinforcement from a small but devoted readership.
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I've had an amazing life, but I think I was born with a little bit of sadness in me. I've always been attracted to those things, whether it's sad movies, sad music... when you're sad, you feel everything in a greater way than you do when you're happy.
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'Hamilton' and 'Shuffle Along' are closely connected because the ensembles are all friends, and they both deal with historical figures and the impact they've made on American life.
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When you look back on your life, it looks as though it were a plot, but when you are into it, it's a mess: just one surprise after another. Then, later, you see it was perfect.
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When you get a cat to catch the mice in your kitchen, you can't expect it to ignore the rats in the cellar.
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The artist yields often to the stimuli of materials that will transmit his spirit.
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I read to my kid, but I can't stand reading.
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I say the word death a lot … think of it as … primal relations, opposite, so if I say death a lot, it means I'm concerned with life. It's true.
