I think there are a lot more writers who are actors than you know they just don't have roles on famous TV shows that you recognize.
As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying paintings.
Boris Pasternak
When you begin to actively participate in the creation of your life, there is never an end, even in death, for physics tells us that nothing is ever created nor destroyed, merely transformed.
Stephen Richards
No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim.
You don't have to be rich and famous. You just have to be an ordinary person, doing extraordinary things. I'd like more people to know that it's there. Women's achievements still aren't recognised enough in many areas.
Joan Armatrading
Happiness is not the absence of problems it's the ability to deal with them.
Steve Maraboli
In deep meditation the flow of concentration is continuous like the flow of oil.
Patanjali
I want a baby and I want a family, for sure.
Rashida Jones
When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds: Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great, and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and your discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.
Not the fruit of experience but experience itself, is the end.
Walter Pater
The auditory perception is not sufficient for our knowledge of the world it does not have vastness.
Robert Delaunay
All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.
Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow.
Samuel Paterson
We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.
Blaise Pascal
The more wild and incredible your desire, the more willing and prompt God is in fulfilling it, if you will have it so.
Coventry Patmore
Without story books is like a person with no soul.
Stephen King
The real test of a man is not how well he plays the role he has invented for himself, but how well he plays the role that destiny assigned to him.
Jan Patocka
To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.
Quintilian
What is now proved was once only imagined.
William Blake
War is not the only arena where peace is done to death.
Aung San Suu Kyi
We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. ... The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.
Abraham Lincoln
In a democracy everybody has a right to be represented, including the jerks.
Chris Patten
The interesting thing is when we design and architect a server, we don't design it for Windows or Linux, we design it for both. We don't really care, as long as we're selling the one the customer wants.
Michael Dell
To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world sparkles with light.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Green politics at its worst amounts to a sort of Zen fascism; less extreme, it denounces growth and seeks to stop the world so that we can all get off.
There is a sort of exotic preposterousness about a lot of elections, the way arguments are made even cruder.
An executive is a man who decides; sometimes he decides right, but always he decides.
John H. Patterson
At this point I have enough money to live 25 lifetimes. You couldn't spend the money I've accrued now.
Shia LaBeouf
I couldn't find the remote control to the remote control.
Steven Wright
Before you try to convince anyone else, be sure you are convinced, and if you cannot convince yourself, drop the subject.
Any agreement that you have isn't going to be based on North Korea's intentions or trust.
Mitchell Reiss
To survive, men and business and corporations must serve.
For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Do you know what the overhead is of the Medicare system? One-point-zero-five percent. Do you know what - private insurance is 30 percent in overhead and profits? Given a choice how I'm going to improve health care, I'm going to take it away from private insurance profits and overhead. Wouldn't you?
Anthony Weiner
I just want to lie down with you and wakr up with you, just, once, just once ever in my life
Cassandra Clare
An accent mark, perhaps, instead of a whole western accent -- a point of punctuation rather than a uniform twang. That is how it should be worn: as a quiet point of character reference, an apt phrase of sartorial allusion -- macho, sotto voce.
Phil Patton
I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.
Walt Disney
When you put your hand to the plow, you can't put it down until you get to the end of the row.
Alice Paul
My little son, Atticus, desperately needs his dad and I haven't been there for him... and that's sad.
Daniel Baldwin
All that exists is just and unjust and is equally justified in both respects.
Patience makes a woman beautiful in middle age.
Elliot Paul
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