Adiaphane Quotes

#1. Open your eyes now. I will. One moment. Has all vanished since? If I open and am for ever in the black adiaphane. Basta! I will see if I can see.
See now. There all the time without you: and ever shall be, world without end.

James Joyce

#2. That's the problem with the Christmas story: most of the roles are for boys. The only girl is there because men can't have babies.

Bryn Greenwood

#3. I make a composition with a white and a black, and make adjustments when the white has become a paper and the black a shadow.

Juan Gris

#4. I know too that we Americans like to think of ourselves as cleaner than clean, a healthy nation who would never take anything when a recent poll suggested that 65 per cent of the population would risk dying in 10 years if they would be guaranteed Olympic gold.

Greg LeMond

#5. Hug her. That's what she's there for.

Lisa Cholodenko

#6. My boy, the 'quenelles de sole' were splendid, but the peas were poor. You should shake the pan gently, all the time, like this.

Marie-Antoine Careme

#7. Even though people spend more of their waking hours at work than anywhere else, people underestimate how work influences their overall wellbeing and daily experience.

Tom Rath

#8. If you want to attract more investment, foreign investment, more talent, more business, I think having some level of certainty that the business environment respects, those who have been your partners for a long time, is important.

Louis R. Chenevert

#9. I'm a big old romantic.

Colin Farrell

#10. People don't pay attention. And then one day there's an accounting. And after that, nothing is the same.

Cormac McCarthy

#11. IVY: Mom believes women don't grow more attractive with age. KAREN: Oh, I disagree, I - VIOLET: I didn't say they "don't grow more attractive," I said they get ugly. And it's not really a matter of opinion, Karen dear. You've only just started to prove it yourself.

Tracy Letts

#12. If you are interested in writing, get out and live your life! Do a lot. See a lot. Keep your eyes and ears open. Pay attention to the different ways people speak. Read lots of different kinds of books. And then try writing in different voices and styles - don't be afraid to experiment.

Wendelin Van Draanen

#13. Nature, it her most dazzling aspects or stupendous parts, is but the background and theatre of the tragedy of man

John Morley

#14. Let us carve gems out of our stony hearts and let them light our path to love.

Rumi