Collecting Pebbles Quotes

#1. To wait for a year to gain a pearl, is better than collecting pebbles everyday.

Yasser Kashef

#2. Leigh did what any sane female faced with such an e-mail would do: deleted it to resist the temptation of replying, cleared her trash to resist the temptation of recalling it, and then called tech support to restore all her recently deleted e-mails. (Chasing Harry Winston)

Lauren Weisberger

#3. We are constantly - in order to cope with painful realities - shuffling through third-rate, half-remembered fantasies taken from movies, from TV, from people we admire. We do this individually, we do it collectively - we tell stories to escape our most painful truths.

Joshua Oppenheimer

#4. Yeah, the sitcom world is dead. It's all reality.

Jamie Foxx

#5. If I hadn't been an actor, I probably would have been a social worker.

Pierce Brosnan

#6. Theoretically there is a perfect possibility of happiness: believing in the indestructible element in oneself and not striving towards it.

Franz Kafka

#7. Have you ever noticed that all four of the greatest poets in the world are Muslim? And yet all the Muslims you meet are illiterate or covered head to toe in black burkas or looking for buildings to blow up? It's a puzzle, isn't it? If you ever figure these people out, send me an e-mail.

Aravind Adiga

#8. It was different in America: the incessant perpetuation of collective fantasies makes people crave the truth and nothing but the truth
reality is the fastest American commodity.

Aleksandar Hemon

#9. Paula says that the problem is that people like Jim are too good. And he knows that the problem is not them. The problem is that people need other people (like Eileen) to be too bad.

Rachel Joyce

#10. Mysticism is colourful and alluring, but if you are after the truth, science is the best path!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#11. Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday's omissions and regrets.

William Faulkner

#12. It went on, this lifetime in a box, one letter after another.

Nicholas Sparks