Alice In Charge Quotes

#1. The important things happen by chance. Only the rest gets planned.

Jeanette Winterson

#2. The unexpectedness of life, waiting round every corner, catches even wise women unawares," [Freya] wrote. "To avoid corners altogether is, after all, to refuse to live." ... It was if someone in charge had said to me: not guilty. Permission granted to continue on with your life as usual.

Alice Steinbach

#3. To work with the hands or brain, according to our requirements and our capacities, to do that which lies before us to do, is more honorable than rank and title.

Albert Pike

#4. Most of the time I liked being in charge of my life, thrived on it, in fact. But occasionally, when I was tired or unhappy. I'd find myself thinking how nice it would be to let someone else run the show, at least for a while.

Alice Steinbach

#5. Ten years ago, we would have been writing perfect stories, but people's attention spans have become more limited in these, the last days of literacy.

Jeff VanderMeer

#6. The problem of architecture has always been the same throughout time. Its authentic quality is reached through its proportions, and the proportions cost nothing. In fact, most of them are proportions among things, not the things themselves. Art is almost always a question of proportions.

Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

#7. I like the Kardashians. I watch 'em. When Kim got the botox in her face, and it made her face go weepy, that was funny. I also watch 'America's Next Top Model.' I've always been a big fan.

Sam Worthington

#8. The numbers of universes perceived by human beings does not equal the population of the planet, but several times the population of the planet. It thus appears some sort of miracle that we sometimes find it possible to communicate with each other at all, at all.

Robert Anton Wilson

#9. Each year, billions of animals are subjected to cruelty on factory farms, feed lots, and slaughterhouses. The brutality that these animals endure would be grounds for felony cruelty charges if inflicted upon our cats and dogs.

Peter Dinklage

#10. We need all hands on deck, and that means clearing hurdles for women and girls as they navigate careers in science, technology, engineering, and math.

Michelle Obama

#11. Sex makes you stupid

Donna Barnes

#12. I knew you were in charge of me but my mind broke on its own.

Alice Notley

#13. Just that what happens today or next week or next year isn't necessarily the way things are always going to be. As soon as you settle into a routine, life throws you a curveball. Sometimes you hit it, sometimes you don't.

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

#14. What?" he asked. "You're staring at me funny."
"We're in the wrong movie," I confessed.

Lou Harper

#15. Sometimes I wish I could just press a button and be through school and starting my real life,' I told him.
'This is your real life, Al,' he said, 'Don't start living in the future. That's like gulping down a piece of fudge cake and then asking yourself, 'Where'd it go?' You're missing the moment.

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

#16. Repentance and yearning, and yearning and repentance: this is the total harvest of life.

Khurram Murad

#17. A divine dance appears in the soul and the body at the time of peace and union.Anyone can learn the dance, just listen to the music.

Rumi

#18. In a way, no matter who's in charge of the corporation that the United States is, the direction in which it is taken seems to be inexorable. So, you just get the job of being the front man for four or eight years. Now, most people realize that's what you are.

Alice Walker

#19. I never thought I was a great mom. I always worked. I fell in love with my children as they got older.

Marla Gibbs

#20. And that destination for which we should strive is one of a successful life not necessarily a life of success.

Andy Andrews

#21. It wasn't right to have someone charge into you your world without even asking, acting as if you were nothing more than an egg to be flipped and flopped, sunny-side up or scrambled, depending on the whims on whoever ran your life ... _

Alice Hoffman

#22. As human beings, we are all not conducting just one narrative but many narratives all at the same time.

David Hare