Francesca Caccini Quotes

#1. If I sit down to write a young-adult novel, then I'm going to write either to the punch-pulling expectation of what I can't do, or I'm going to go the other way and think about what can I sneak in to be 'down with the kids' - which would be excruciating.

Patrick Ness

#2. If God gives you chocolate, you open your mouth, no?

Alejandro Jodorowsky

#3. The more we count the blessings we have, the less we crave the luxuries we haven't.

William Arthur Ward

#4. If you seek security in life, unknowingly you seek death. The only truly secure place is your grave.

Jaggi Vasudev

#5. Our caste was just three away from the bottom. We were artists. And artists and classical musicians were only three steps up from dirt. Literally. Our money was stretched as tight as a high wire, and our income was highly dependent on the changing seasons.

Kiera Cass

#6. By definition, you can't experience your own death. Death is the end of consciousness. And consciousness persists. In the language of physics, consciousness is conserved.
I am the one who wakes up in the morning.
Always.
Every morning.
I don't die.
I just become increasingly unlikely.

Robert Charles Wilson

#7. The gay community just recognizes what their closets are and we straight have to spend years trying to figure out which closet we are trapped in.

Judith Light

#8. I found the material that people hated the most and used the most. So, I was going and try and see if I could play with it sculpturally.

Frank Gehry

#9. Revenge is for the weak so I have settled my vendettas with all of the kids who made my early life a living hell.

Donald Glover

#10. Life insurance became popular only when insurance companies stopped emphasizing it as a good investment and sold it instead as a symbolic commitment by fathers to the future well-being of their families.

James Surowiecki

#11. As a businessman, I know President Obama understands what it takes to spark economic growth, because I have seen him in action.

Austin Ligon