Lenis Northmore Quotes

#1. Isn't the whole point of things - beautiful things - that they connect you to some larger beauty? Those first images that crack your heart wide open and you spend the rest of your life chasing, or trying to recapture, in one way or another?

Donna Tartt

#2. The only thing I consciously avoid is playing the victim. I think women are portrayed as the victim in so many things, and I really like women with strength - although I feel now I may have gone overboard by playing so many strong, sassy women.

Kristen Bell

#3. A startup is the largest endeavor over which you can have definite mastery. You can have agency not just over your own life, but over a small and important part of the world. It begins by rejecting the unjust tyranny of Chance. You are not a lottery ticket.

Peter Thiel

#4. A hint: perhaps in this case, you should refrain from throwing the book at the audience when you finish.

Annie Barrows

#5. He could smell the lavender scent of the powder she dabbed under her arms, and his own fluids, and hers pungently intermingling.

Gail Jones

#6. I have to really think hard about how to structure sentences, and do more mapping when I sit down to write, so it does impose a certain discipline, intellectual and linguistic.

Daniel Alarcon

#7. If we can still love those who have made us suffer, we love them all the more.

Anna Brownell Jameson

#8. In 'Kill Rock n' Roll,' the choruses came about at the moment I was listening to a lot of the Supremes, and if you listen to that part, you can hear a melody and a harmony there that's not too far away from what the Supremes would probably be doing, but there's heavy guitars in the back.

Daron Malakian

#9. Sure, swing your oscillating dick over there, and see how long you last before she runs screaming for the authorities.

J.A. Belfield

#10. To insist, even with Olympian assurance, that life appeared quite by chance and evolved in this fashion, is an unfounded supposition which I believe to be wrong and not in accordance with the facts.

Pierre-Paul Grasse

#11. What does anyone say to anybody who used to be so important in her life, whom she's not seen in such a long time? It seems to me that in situations like this, we're all wondering the same thing: I'm still me; are you still you? A

Elizabeth Berg