Geri Larkin Quotes

When I finally learned to let go of having to totally control everything around me and let my life unfold, I was stunned by the results. How could I have ever thought I could outsmart the Universe?

Geri Larkin

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• Tenured professors are more prone than the rest of us to think that the university is the universe.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Think
  • Universe
  • Rest

• I think that's what art is about: to provoke you. It helps me make sense of a senseless universe because I become the god of the story. I create it, and I see it in all its lineaments in my own way and can control it – in a world in which everything else is out of control.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • World
  • God
  • Art

• I hate exercising self-control.

  

  Kate Upton
  • Hate
  • Control
  • Self-Control

• Most Muslim women know it is fear and curiosity that cause people to stare. They know it is ignorance and stereotypes that cause people to suppose that a piece of material covering the hair strips a woman of the ability to speak English, pursue a career, work a remote control.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • People
  • Work
  • Women

• Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Book
  • Universe
  • Language

• We are bits of energy floating about in various guises, and when we die we rejoin the big cosmic soup of the universe.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Energy
  • Die
  • Universe

• I have lived too long to cherish many illusions about the essential high-mindedness of men when brought into stark confrontation with the issue of control over their security, and their property interests.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Men
  • Long
  • High

• The crimes that become iconic etch themselves into the collective consciousness because they suggest a frightening truth: that the universe does not rely on cause and effect.

  

  S. J. Rozan
  • Truth
  • Universe
  • Become

• For me, love is the most important force. It moves the universe.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Important
  • Love
  • Universe

• 'On demand' is more than just a series of clicks on your still-too-complicated remote control. In fact, it is now the best way to describe what the cable industry - from programmers to content makers to distributors - imagine their world is. Services and content available to very demanding consumers, wherever, whenever, however.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • World
  • Control
  • Best

• I believe nothing happens by mistake. You know, the universe has a divine plan. That sounds dramatic.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Believe
  • Universe
  • Mistake

• When I fly in a helicopter, I insist there be two sets of controls, one for me in case something happens to the pilot. I'm no expert, but I know enough to at least get the thing on the ground. Nothing scares me like the thought of not being in control.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Control
  • Thought
  • Fly

• I spend a year at the Hoover Institute at Stanford, researching market approaches to air pollution control.

  

  Gale Norton
  • Control
  • Air
  • Year

• Negro equality! Fudge!! How long, in the government of a God, great enough to make and maintain this Universe, shall there continue to be knaves to vend, and fools to gulp, so low a piece of demagougeism as this?

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Great
  • God
  • Long

• The Platonists and their Christian successors held the peculiar notion that the Earth was tainted and somehow nasty, while the heavens were perfect and divine. The fundamental idea that the Earth is a planet, that we are citizens of the Universe, was rejected and forgotten.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Earth
  • Perfect
  • Universe

• He touched me...Control myself and try to actAs if I remember my nameBut he touched me...he touched me...And suddenly nothing is the same!

  

  Ira Levin
  • Remember
  • Control

• To drift with every passion till my soulIs a stringed lute on which all winds can play, Is it for this that I have given away Mine ancient wisdom, and austere control?Methinks my life is a twice-written scroll Scrawled over on some boyish holiday With idle songs for pipe and virelay, Which do but mar the secret of the whole.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Control
  • Wisdom

• As important as it is for the producers to pay more attention to the female roles, it's more important for us to take control over this situation and define who we are. Because if they just give us the parts, it's their point of view of who we are. What's important is that we define who we are and don't wait for the men to give us the roles.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Men
  • Important
  • Control

• There isn't anything I don't eat, although I'm not too keen on creepy crawly things. Other than that, I'm quite adventurous. I like all types of red meat, and I'm not a fussy eater at all.

  

  Cherie Lunghi
  • Red
  • Creepy

• Everything I do tries to do the same thing, which is to express things that are hard to express, hidden things.

  

  Jim Woodring

• When I get up I still check the rap blogs before I check any kind of dance stuff.

  

  Alain Macklovitch
  • Up
  • Dance
  • Rap

• It is just that he should act with reserve towards those who act with reserve towards him. On the contrary, he gives himself entirely to those souls, who, driving from their hearts everything that is not God, and does not lead them to his love, and giving themselves to him without reserve, truly say to him: My God and my all.

  

  Alphonsus Liguori
  • God
  • Giving
  • Driving

• When I finally learned to let go of having to totally control everything around me and let my life unfold, I was stunned by the results. How could I have ever thought I could outsmart the Universe?

  

  Geri Larkin
  • Control
  • Universe
  • Outsmart