Actio Quotes

#1. The female form provides the solution in which the essence itself is held; she is passio, and acted upon, the male is actio, the mover.

Marina Warner

#2. Hemingway was a prisoner of his style. No one can talk like the characters in Hemingway except the characters in Hemingway. His style in the wildest sense finally killed him.

William S. Burroughs

#3. The coffee shop is a great New York institution, but it has terrible coffee. And the more traditional coffee shops are trying to catch up with more sophisticated coffee drinkers.

Adam Gopnik

#4. But will you miss me? More importantly - will I miss you? Does either one of us really want to hear the answer to that question?

Jodi Picoult

#5. The lessons of history would suggest that civilisations move in cycles. You can track that back quite far - the Babylonians, the Sumerians, followed by the Egyptians, the Romans, China. We're obviously in a very upward cycle right now, and hopefully that remains the case. But it may not.

Elon Musk

#6. When I started on 'Saturday Night Live,' I had the choice of wearing contact lenses, which I had never worn before, or glasses, in order to be able to read the cue cards.

Tina Fey

#7. Some people are like fragile petals, and they don't recover from hardship. Do we blame the petal? Or do we excuse its fragility and mourn its loss?

Aleksandra Layland

#8. I started playing jazz by slowing down Tal Farlow records and analyzing his runs

Lenny Breau

#9. Most people are only doing the best that they know how to do.Blaming and holding grudges only brings more pain.

Maggie Cox

#10. My true friends always gave me this supreme proof of attachment: a spontaneous aversion to the men I loved.

Colette