Dekapentavgoustos Quotes

#1. Fame may go by and - so long, I've had you.

Marilyn Monroe

#2. My mind is filled with cataclysm and apocalypse. I wish for earthquakes, eruptions, flood.

Madeline Miller

#3. She'd spent seven long years without so much as a hug, and she was starved for physical affection. She had known what it was like to be touched and kissed, and she had no idea how much she'd missed it until that very moment.

Julia Quinn

#4. Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left.

Jane Austen

#5. The divine process of change manifests itself to our human understanding ... as punishment, torment, death, and transfiguration.

Carl Jung

#6. You take what you're given and make the very best of it.

A.L. Jackson

#7. You, sir, are asking for trouble.
... .
Fuck trouble. I wasn't asking for it.
I was inviting it.

Karina Halle

#8. All men will be Peters in their bragging tongue, and most men will be Peters in their base denial; but few men will be Peters in their quick repentance.

Owen Feltham

#9. My house is full of antics, mayhem, foolishness, carrying on, cutting up, shucking and jiving, and I have that whether cameras are there or not. Our youngest just had us up with her shenanigans and hijinks all night. So, it's all the time, even off camera.

Niecy Nash

#10. We earn what we get - most of us - and, sweet heaven help us! we get it. God does not always pay on Saturday - but He Pays.

Louise Jordan Miln

#11. You can always pick out stage actors at the Oscars: they know how to walk.

Ian McKellen

#12. My desk was a present from Margaret Atwood.
After Zen and the Art of Uterus Maintenance
sold its first million, she said I needed a place
to write, other than the local bus-shelter.

Nuala Ni Chonchuir

#13. There are a couple of watersheds in human evolution. Most people are comfortable thinking about tool use and language use as watersheds. But the ability to play non-zero-sum games was another watershed.

Jonathan Haidt

#14. Find what is it that never sleeps and never wakes, and whose pale reflection is our sense of 'I'

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj