Perphery Quotes

#1. Nietzsche's point is that the world does not present itself as an indifferent array of inert facts. The world tempts and repulses, threatens and charms; certain features impress themselves upon us, others recede into the perphery, unnoticed. Our experience of the world is fundamentally value-laden.

Paul Katsafanas

#2. It's a tough business. To my parents or to their friends, I was not a success, but to me I was a huge success. I was having a blast. I was working on shows I loved, I was working with actors I loved, and I was making a living as an actor. And I loved every second of it.

Christina Hendricks

#3. When each expects the other to live in his or her world, to always be there to join in his or her chosen activities, an ego battle inevitably develops.

James Redfield

#4. Do you not think, Mrs. Givings, that snow is always kind? Because it has to fall slowly, to meet the ground slowly, or the eyelash slowly - And things that meet each other slowly are kind.

Sarah Ruhl

#5. You don't need to throw something away just because you're afraid of how it might turn out.

Jeanette Battista

#6. Give me twenty-six soldiers of lead and I will conquer the world.

Johannes Gutenberg

#7. No candy bars unless I've had a low blood sugar where I'm shaky.

Mary Tyler Moore

#8. These napkins are more holy than righteous, Mrs. Wapshot said, and most of her conversation at table was made up of just such chestnuts, saws and hoary puns.

John Cheever

#9. The greatest difficulty always comes right before the birth of a dream.

Joel Osteen

#10. Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the ...

Malcolm X

#11. I don't think we can do that."
"At these prices you should bring the cow out and have a ritual sacrifice at
the table. Just do it." I handed him the menu. He took it.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#12. Love your Enemies, for they tell you your Faults.

Benjamin Franklin

#13. Once your kids get older and get out of the house, it's not like it stops. They're on the phone with me every day; I'm intimately involved in their problems.

Rosanne Cash

#14. I was working in corporate Canada and I was doing all right. But I was burnt out ... Long hours, a lot of clients. I just wanted to get away. Track and field was sort of like the elimination thing. I just wanted to go and do something. Exercise my brain and my body and kind of gravitate to that.

Donovan Bailey

#15. I'd be curious to find out, but I don't think people in the entertainment industry are proportionally more or less serious politically than anyone in the landscaping industry.

David Cross