Alberni Power Quotes

#1. The singular point of beautiful objects, and people, is that they are experienced not as parts, or ratios between cheekbones and chin, but as wholes. The experience of beauty is a perception, but it is one that mixes up various other sensations and makes them converge in a particular way.

Charles Jencks

#2. A thousand thoughts ran through my mind. Well, at least six or seven, anyway, because a thousand thoughts are a lot. Try counting your own thoughts and see how long it takes you to get to a thousand.

Linda Howard

#3. One of the many sad ironies of African-American life is that every banal dysfunctional social gathering is called a "function.

Paul Beatty

#4. Despite its maddeningly vague, inarticulate form, anxiety is almost always trying to tell you something useful and apposite.

Alain De Botton

#5. I think my mother was very spiritual.

John McGahern

#6. You can be our critic. Would you dig that? (Yes, he was the last Man in America who could say "dig" with a straight face without referring to the process of using a tool to remove dirt from the ground.)

Jordan Sonnenblick

#7. I am made of my memories.

Sharon Cameron

#8. Nothing can take the sting off the world's economic problems like watching millionaires present each other golden statues.

Billy Crystal

#9. Life is not an arrangement of flowers

Thabiso Monkoe

#10. Don't be discouraged. When one door closes, you can find alternative open door.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#11. We'd spent eleven hours together. That had to be some kind of record for a second date that didn't involve a sleepover or a kidnapping.

Abigail Barnette

#12. A man can go along obeying all the rules and then it don't matter a damn anymore.

Raymond Carver

#13. We do not want to lose our grief, because our grief is bound up with our love and we could not cease to mourn without being robbed of our affections.

Phillips Brooks

#14. Apply this simple rule to your conversations: If you wouldn't write it down and sign it, don't say it.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#15. The loss of my father was the most traumatic event in my life - I can't forget the pain.

Frank Lowy