Alexandra Penney Quotes

#1. The subjective mind is entirely under the control of the objective mind. With the utmost fidelity it reproduces and works out to its final consequences whatever the objective mind impresses upon it.

Thomas Troward

#2. Art isn't meaningless ... It is in itself. It isn't in that it tries to make life less so.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#3. A three-day-old baby is a saint?'
Willibald flapped his hands. 'Miracles happen, lord,' he said, 'they really do. They say little Rumwold sang God's praises whenever he suckled.'
'I feel much the same when I get hild of a tit,' I said, 'so does that make me a saint?

Bernard Cornwell

#4. Inspiration is a sustainable internal glow which pulls you forward.

Thomas Leonard

#5. The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but to hold hands.

Alexandra Penney

#6. We seem to live a culture that doesn't want blemishes. The vision of most beautiful models ... airbrushed in order to be seen as perfect, infects our notion of how literature should be written.

Alberto Manguel

#7. you can be what you want to be

John Elliot

#8. Anytime you do something out of the ordinary, there will be skeptics. Everyone wants a reason why. That's fine. What's happened with me is just an accumulation of a lot of things.

Brian Roberts

#9. The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.

Thomas A. Edison

#10. Only a fool would cross a night traveler.

Kathleen O'Neal Gear

#11. Ten properties of an object, according to Leonardo: light and dark, color and substance, form and position, distance and nearness, movement and stillness.

Robert Bresson

#12. A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.

Henry Fielding

#13. I'd already lost my fucking mind and was already thinking of her as mine.

Jordan Silver

#14. I pick up the thin, delicate silver chain that has a flat bar that horizontally connects the chain together. I see that the bar is etched with tiny letters that scribe: And though she be but little, she is fierce

E.K. Blair

#15. It is hard not to see into the future, faced with today's blind architecture - a thousand times more stupid and more revolting than that of other ages. How bored we shall be inside!

Andre Breton