Atarah Quotes

#1. What am I to do?
What is my destiny?
I have no idea, not a clue
Feeling lost and empty.
What is my dream?
What is my future?
I beg thee to listen to me,
I beg thee to answer.

Atarah L. Poling

#2. Within my reflection I see tears, for what I see is the truth, are my greatest fears.

Atarah L. Poling

#3. I had thought of being a hermit, but she told me I was over-qualified and suggested instead a profession where I might enjoy the sound of my own voice.

Gillian St. Kevern

#4. I have been out again on the river, rowing. I find nothing new.

Fanny Kemble

#5. We need to reward the 'thankless job' of substitute teaching with better pay and chances for permanent positions. I look forward to the day when no student comes home saying, 'I didn't learn much today ... we had a sub.'

Adora Svitak

#6. I don't feel strong anymore
I feel like falling to my knees.
Things aren't the way they were before,
They're not the way they're supposed to be.

Atarah L. Poling

#7. If I was married with ten kids, I wouldn't be talking on the phone with you. I'd be shooting myself in the fucking head.

Joanna Wylde

#8. Death, everyone fears it in one way or another but when I stood in front of it myself, face to face, I felt no fear.

Atarah L. Poling

#9. Don't get too comfortable. We are here for a certain period of time, and how much of your life are you gonna choose to spend with distractions? How do you make your choices? What is important?

David Chase

#10. Psychologists have shown the irony of the process of thought control: the more energy you put into trying to control your ideas and what you think about, the more your ideas end up controlling you.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#11. There's a reductiveness to photography, of course - in the framing of reality and the exclusion of chunks of it (the rest of the world, in fact). It's almost as if the act of photography bears some relationship to how we consciously manage the uncontrollable set of possibilities that exist in life.

Philip-Lorca DiCorcia

#12. People go to the movies to watch a film and all they're thinking about is the actress's cellulite they saw in a magazine.

Robert Carlyle

#13. If you say that you believe something to be true, you might mean one of two things- that you're still weighing the alternatives, or that you accept it as a fact.

Jodi Picoult

#14. This is where I belong, burning in these flames. For everything I have done wrong, I know I am to blame.

Atarah L. Poling

#15. I yearn to make these scars disappear
And to forget about the past.
To throw away all of my fears
And to be happy at last.

Atarah L. Poling

#16. I tend to dress a little more sophisticated than most women do.

Nicole Richie

#17. That's politics, power: it's all verbal, a continuous blizzard of words. But it's not just speaking, it's making statements. It's action; it's doing something without doing anything.

Harry Mulisch

#18. I am not quite sure where home is right now. I do have places in London and Milan, and a house in Spain. I guess I would say home is where my mother is, and she lives in Spain.

Sarah Brightman