Marit Breivik Quotes

#1. Food is symbolic of love when words are inadequate.

Alan D. Wolfelt

#2. The war had come home, and it was ugly and senseless,

Heather Demetrios

#3. Most of the women in film are there to be beautiful to the man.

Eva Green

#4. No matter what she did with her hair it took about three minutes for it to tangle itself up again, like a garden hosepipe in a shed [Which, no matter how carefully coiled, will always uncoil overnight and tie the lawnmower to the bicycles].

Terry Pratchett

#5. It takes twenty-one pounds of protein fed to a calf to produce a single pound of animal protein for humans. We get back less than 5 percent of what we put in.

Peter Singer

#6. I was always my own teacher.

Eudora Welty

#7. I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all.

Abraham Lincoln

#8. My mother, who died aged 82, had Alzheimer's. Losing your memory is bad enough, but everything shuts down. You can't remember how to eat or go to the toilet. It's a terrible disease and so distressing to watch it take over someone you love.

Bonnie Tyler

#9. My real name is Amethyst. It sounds like a stage name. My mom is kind of crazy.

Iggy Azalea

#10. If we read the Holy Bible, we shall know better ways of living life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#11. There is something deeply surreal about standing behind a female performer in hotpink peau de soie, a woman whose clitoris and perineum you have priorly seen, and watching her try to get a microwaved egg roll onto her plate with a cocktail fork.
- David Foster Wallace, "Big Red Son" (1998)

David Foster Wallace

#12. We'll always be disappointed if we believe that we can plan for a peak experience and make it happen. True joy can't be anticipated or planned. It just strikes.

Harriet Lerner

#13. Care: not carnage
Love: not loathing
Peace: not pieces

Maddy Kobar

#14. I don't want to be Mr. Romantic Leading Man. I don't want to be the Dance Dude. I don't want to be the Action Guy. If I had to do any one of those all my life, it'd drive me crazy.

Patrick Swayze

#15. When all else fails, drink some tea. Really. You'll be amazed how many problems it can solve. We like to think of it as Buddha's whiskey.

Tara Cottrell