Breaking New Grounds Quotes

#1. I think it's good for a person to spend time alone. It gives them an opportunity to discover who they are and to figure out why they are always alone.

Amy Sedaris

#2. I think that we can't deny the public's want for balancing out the images that are out there depicting women. Not all of us are 17 and a size two.

Carre Otis

#3. Custom is a second nature, and no less powerful.

Michel De Montaigne

#4. It's about learning what's important and what's not important, and at the end of the day, what size you are does not matter at all. I don't have time to worry about that stuff; I'm going to be healthy.

Aubrey Peeples

#5. There were always a couple of loonies who caused all the trouble.

Zola Budd

#6. [Marriage] a bond for life, and whether you're gay or straight, it makes no difference to being married. What marriage stands for is that you love that person ... You want to commit yourself to that person forever.

Cheryl Cole

#7. Let me tell you what is going to happen. You are going to be executed. You are going to be executed whatever you say or do. But I will spare your women, if they agree to answer my questions.' Silence.

C.S. Pacat

#8. Blue!' she exclaimed. 'Violet blue. What are they made of?' 'Summer skies,' I said, 'and plums and figs, and the grape-blood of emperors.' 'No,

Vladimir Nabokov

#9. Poetry must find ways of breaking distance ... all languages are dialects that are made to break new grounds.

Giannina Braschi

#10. When one looks back over human existence however, it is very evident that all culture has developed through an initial resistance against adaptation to the reality in which man finds himself.

Beatrice M. Hinkle

#11. This reconciliation with Hitler reveals the profound moral perversity of a world that rests essentially on the nonexistence of return, for in this world everything is pardoned in advance and therefore everything cynically permitted.

Milan Kundera

#12. Heaven's ebon vault Studded with stars unutterably bright, Through which the moon's unclouded grandeur rolls, Seems like a canopy which love has spread To curtain her sleeping world.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#13. To keep up as good a cuisine as your father.

Juvenal

#14. I have no desire to maintain a lifestyle. I am a horrible celebrity. If I am out in public I dress like a pig.

Sandra Bullock

#15. Be of good courage, my son, and remember that the best men always make themselves.

Patrick Henry

#16. The economists will have to revise their theories of value.

Albert Einstein