Alec Trevelyan Quotes

#1. She'll outlive the last cockroach

Sue Monk Kidd

#2. In many languages, even the word for human being is "one who goes on migrations." Progress itself is a word rooted in a seasonal journey. Perhaps our need to escape into media is a misplaced desire for the journey.

Gloria Steinem

#3. I love the earth. If you ask me it's the greatest planet in the world.

Stephen Colbert

#4. What is important is not getting intoxicated with a good feeling or getting intoxicated even with an insight. These take many forms in our practice. We go through times of great release, where there has been physical holding for what feels like forever, and something opens up and releases.

Sharon Salzberg

#5. He has little use for scholars, but you are his sole grandchild, and as such, he is willing to overlook your failings as long as you conduct yourself as a princess of the court during your time of service. Do not disappoint him, Andromeda. Your grandfather's mercy is not endless.

Nalini Singh

#6. When you're talking about Iraq and oil, you're talking about a mess, no matter who's in charge.

Dennis Kucinich

#7. Truth is cold and hard but it is also the first step on the path to hope and salvation.

Lynn Tilton

#8. Sometimes we have to wait for years to seek a really exceptional thing. I always wanted to give you the best thing in the world but ...

Anuradha Bhattacharyya

#9. mum's dress. mum loved big parties. she loved dressing up and champagne bubbles tickling her nose, and dancing with her arms above her head, shoes thrown to the edges of the dance floor, and shouting inane happy things at people.

Elizabeth Noble

#10. And so every one of us has to find out for himself what is allowed and what is forbidden
forbidden for him. It is entirely possible to never do anything forbidden at all and still be an absolute scroundel. And vice versa.

Hermann Hesse

#11. A lot of musicians have a tough time hearing what we're doing in a trio format.

Branford Marsalis

#12. Art is the provocation for talking about enigma and the search for sense in human life. One can do that by telling a story or writing about a fresco by Giotto or studying how a snail climbs up a wall.

John Berger

#13. The only tool we have to fix the problems of this country - the democratic process - is itself broken. Which is why nothing will fundamentally change until we solve the problem of money in politics.

Arianna Huffington

#14. I was living alone before, Campbell, if that's what you're asking." She looks at me over the edge of her wine glass. "How about you?"
"I have six wives, fifteen children, and an assortment of sheep."
Her lips curve. "People like you always make me feel like I'm underachieving.

Jodi Picoult