Atomisation Quotes

#1. I liked you because you could make me smile. I fell in love with you because you made me want to be a better person. Now that you're leaving me, what am I supposed to do?

Lisa Gilbert

#2. Violence arises not out of superfluity of power but out of powerlessness.

Rollo May

#3. Spend at least some of your training time, and other parts of your day, concentrating on what you are doing in training and visualizing your success.

Grete Waitz

#4. I believe that it's an author's job to cast his imagination into the far spaces. Your life should - and I think it's inescapable that it will - inform your work. I'm all for using anything that can make your art better, but your intuition should be an equal partner.

Brent Weeks

#5. Suburban sprawl leads to social atomisation and fragmentation and is environmentally disastrous, as carbon-intensive car journeys displace local shops and replace public transport.

Richard Rogers

#6. Actors are all about entrances, but writers are all about exits.

Vincent H. O'Neil

#7. True, but irrelevant.

Barbara M. White

#8. I began to more fully embrace the trying of new skills when I asked myself, Would I rather protect my ego or do stuff in life?

Chris Hardwick