Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Bukowski

I have no time for things that have no soul.

Charles Bukowski

Understand me. I’m not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension and I do not have time for things that have no soul.

D. H. Lawrence

You have to have something vicious in you to be a creative writersomething old-adamish, incompatible to the "ordinary world.

Anais Nin

I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to live in the ordinary world as ordinary women. To enter ordinary relationships. I want ecstasy. I am a neurotic — in the sense that I live in my world. I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.

Anais Nin

I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.

David Eddings

But there's a world beyond what we can see and touch, and that world lives by its own laws. What may be impossible in this very ordinary world is very possible there, and sometimes the boundaries between the two worlds disappear, and then who can say what is possible and impossible?

Pierre de Coubertin

The Olympic Games are not just ordinary world championships but a quadrennial festival of universal youth. . . celebrated by each succeeding generation as it arrives on the threshold of adulthood.

Eudora Welty

[William Eggleston] sets forth what makes up our ordinary world. What is there, however strange, can be accepted without question; familiarity will be what overwhelms us.

John Smoltz

When you're put in this position, you have either one of two feelings gut-wrenching or ecstasy ... there's nothing else you can feel,

Thomas Gray

Hands, that the rod of empire might have swayed, / Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre.

George Bataille

finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic love

Anja Huizink

Using ecstasy may increase a risk that is already there.

George Steiner

The whispers of shared ecstasy are choral.

Alexander Pushkin

Ecstasy is a glassful of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.

Mark Twain

An ecstasy is a thing that will not go into words; it feels like music.

Bud Perrone

This temporary setback can and must be overcome.

Tom Rossley

We're not evaluating Brett. We're just trying to get a little tempo going with the first group.

Jim Smith

He's been our tempo setter. You know what you're getting with him everyday.

Jaime Gongora

I thought that we got just what we wanted. We were controlling the tempo of the game.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness.

Vicki Coleman

We wanted to keep the tempo up, but it's hard.

Napoleon Hill

Remember when your plans fail, that temporary defeat is not permanent failure.

Napoleon Hill

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination.

Napoleon Hill

You are fortunate if you have learned the difference between temporary defeat and failure, more fortunate still if you have learned the truth that the very seed of success is dormant in every defeat that you experience.