Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carol Shields

The recounting of a life is a cheat...even our own stories are obscenely distorted...

Carlos Fuentes

Writing is a struggle against silence.

Carlos Castaneda

What is a truthful life? A life lived with deliberateness, a good, strong life.

Carlos Castaneda

I'm never angry at anybody! No human being can do anything important enough for that. You get angry at people when you feel that their acts are important. I don't feel that way any longer.

Carlos Castaneda

Burn your bridges every 2 years.

Carlos Castaneda

One ,must have something to die for in order to have something to live for

Carlos Castaneda

For me the world is weird because it is stupendous, awesome, mysterious, unfathomable; my interest has been to convince you that you must assume responsibility for being here, in this marvelous world, in this marvelous desert, in this marvelous time. I want to convince you that you must learn to make every act count, since you are going to be here for only a short while, in fact, too short for witnessing all the marvels of it.

C. S. Lewis

Bridge-players tell me that there must be some money on the game 'or else people won't take it seriously'. Apparently it's like that. Your bid - for God or no God, for a good God or the Cosmic Sadist, for eternal life or nonentity - will not be serious if nothing much is staked on it. And you will never discover how serious it was until the stakes are raised horribly high, until you find that you are playing not for counters or for sixpences but for every penny you have in the world.

Agnes de Mille

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Deepak Chopra

Mastery of awareness requires that you never take personal offense.

Leonardo da Vinci

One can have no more mastery over the environment, than one has over himself.

Oswald Chambers

It is misleading to imagine that we are developed in spite of our circumstances, for we are developed because of them. It is mastery in circumstances that is needed, not mastery over them.

Jenny Offill

One of the odd things about being a writer is that you never reach a point of certainty, a point of mastery where you can say, Right. Now I understand how this is done.

Pablo Picasso

When you're really young, you're young for life.

Frantz Fanon

Mastery of language affords remarkable power.

George Hansen

He's a proven quantity here. - He has a tremendous mastery of his off-speed stuff and he can really mix it up.

Gregory Bateson

After mastery comes artistry and not before.

John Norman

It is one thing to own a woman, and it is another to have her within the bonds of an excellent mastery.

Jacqueline McKenzie

We blush very, very easily, and we get terrified of audiences.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Everyone's terrified of being mediocre. Everyone wants to be special.

Stanley Elkin

I've always been terrified of dying, always. It was a concern of mine long before it had to be.

Saint Teresa of Avila

I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.

Lucy Punch

I am terrified of being misjudged by thousands of faceless Twitterers.

Farrah Fawcett

I was terrified of getting the chemo. It's not pleasant. And the radiation is not pleasant.

Rhianna Pratchett

Showing a videogame character terrified and scared is something that's not really done that much.

Danny Pintauro

When you spent so much time being terrified that you're going to get something, and then you have it, you don't have to be terrified anymore.

John Doran

They are terrified they will make a mistake,