Karen Salmansohn Quotes
Instead of asking God to remove our problems so that our lives might be happy, we must purposefully try to learn as much as we can - and thereby become happier due to our insights and growth.
Quotes to Explore
-
I remember the moon landings, and Apollo was the paradigm by which all progress was measured at that time. And I knew that creating a true space-faring civilization was both possible and practical. What I failed to realize was that the effort would fail due to bureaucratic inertia and political apathy.
-
You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
-
The hardest thing in the world to do is to have someone in a seat in a theater laughing so hard that they're making weird sounds.
-
I wouldn't say no to becoming a Bond girl. Making it in Hollywood has been my dream ever since I was little, watching Marilyn Monroe movies. To star in a Bond movie would be bliss on a stick.
-
I like deconstructing things. I like cutting the legs out from under something that feels secret.
-
I've thought for a long time that my body type would have worked well in the '70s. The idea that you could be a broad-shouldered, small-breasted woman and still wear really great outfits.
-
Once, in Australia, I ate 33 pancakes in 20 minutes, and I only did it because they said a girl could never enter the competition.
-
I wanted to publish a book simply to be buried with it; that's all I wanted. I had no ambition beyond that.
-
I do or die, but I never cancel out.
-
I am also one of those persons who were transformed, who grew out of the Soviet system and transformed myself into the new Russia.
-
The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.
-
I love horror movies. It's so fun being absolutely terrified. It's damn hard to shoot, though. I didn't realize how difficult it was to make a horror movie as an actor. Physically and mentally, phew.
-
You know, it's always good to have seen a track before, just to kind of know where the little bumps are here and there, and just the general feel for the size.
-
In my own case, the most inflammatory statements I have ever made are ones that I have written and remain willing to defend.
-
Every day, nay every moment, try to do some good deed.
-
Many novice writers try to avoid using 'said' by substituting synonyms: 'he uttered,' 'she murmured,' 'he questioned.' It's true that any word repeated too often becomes monotonous, but substitutions for 'said' can be worse than its repetition.
-
They're desperately searching for meaning in their lives but they will not crack the Bible open.
-
In times of crisis, the incumbent suffers. And the bigger the crisis, the greater the punishment inflicted on those in power unless they do something that makes a change.
-
With my cheek leant upon the window pane I like to fancy that I am pressing as closely as can be upon the massy wall of time, which is forever lifting and pulling and letting fresh spaces of life in upon us. May it be mine to taste the moment before it has spread itself over the rest of the world! Let me taste the newest and the freshest.
-
Effort makes you. You will regret someday if you don’t do your best now. Don’t think it’s too late but keep working on it. It may take time, but there’s nothing that gets worse due to practising. So practise. You may get depressed, but its evidence that you are doing good.
-
A Soul is partly given, partly wrought; remember always that you are the Maker of your own Soul.
-
I feel happy and secure when I'm on my bed with a good book... I forget everything which is terrible in our world.
-
I grew up in the church and began to recite set pieces at the age of four and five, like many of the other kids.
-
Instead of asking God to remove our problems so that our lives might be happy, we must purposefully try to learn as much as we can - and thereby become happier due to our insights and growth.
