Alex Colville Quotes

#1. Every night I vow to work out in the morning. For the past three years, however, I have always found an excuse not to.

Matthew Vaughn

#2. Anxiety is the normality of our age,

Alex Colville

#3. My painting occurs when I think of two disparate elements.

Alex Colville

#4. You are the living miracle.

Akemi G

#5. I am delighted to experience the beauty of life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#6. site's lead writer, dug into the histories

Ashlee Vance

#7. Therefore, my dear Lucilius, begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life. He who has thus prepared himself, he whose daily life has been a rounded whole, is easy in his mind;

Seneca.

#8. She explained crying to him. He said that it felt very good. In his opinion, it was almost the same as laughing. She said that many people believe it is the same.

Jesse Ball

#9. "He preaches well that lives well," quoth Sancho, "that's all the divinity I can understand."

Miguel De Cervantes

#10. Life on the blue part of the globe for eight years had suited me - the wild open spaces, the bliss of buoyancy, the volatile, soul-powered wind. Sailing had struck a nerve both primal and poetic. On and near the ocean life made sense, It made every sense work.

Kaci Cronkhite

#11. I want a minister to be in charge of a line department so they have clear political accountability.

Campbell Newman

#12. I don't use photographs because photographs don't give me the kind of information I need.

Alex Colville

#13. I think if anything I am perhaps more inclined than most people are to be polite and considerate because I am aware that human relationships are innately fragile and kind of dangerous.

Alex Colville

#14. Oh God, the terrible tyranny of the majority. We all have our harps to play. And it's up to you to know with which ear you'll listen.

Ray Bradbury

#15. Intimacy puts us in touch with fragility, he realized, and the acceptance of fragility opens us to intimacy.

Mark Epstein

#16. We do not have bodies - we are bodies! What could possibly be wrong with that form of consciousness? It is all energy anyways.

Christopher Zzenn Loren

#17. It's the ordinary things that seem important to me.

Alex Colville

#18. I don't intend to be menacing, but I do think of life as being essentially dangerous. We never know what's going to happen from one day to the next.

Alex Colville

#19. I just believe people should know what they're eating.

Bill Buford

#20. The woman sees, I suppose, and the man does not,

Alex Colville

#21. Genuine equality means not treating everyone the same, but attending equally to everyone's different needs.

Terry Eagleton

#22. I cared about dogs because they were faithful and honest, and some dogs were cleverer and more interesting than some people.

Mark Haddon