Petersen House Quotes

#1. You can't let the fear of failure keep you from taking the risks that you know are the right ones to take.

S. Usher Evans

#2. Well, you split your soul, you see, and hide part of it in an object outside the body. Then, even if one's body is attacked or destroyed, one cannot die, for part of the soul remains earthbound and undamaged. But of course, existence in such a form ...

J.K. Rowling

#3. I don't know Hollywood very well. I've never lived in Los Angeles or New York. But what I can see in Paris, where I live, is that actresses like Catherine Deneuve, Isabelle Huppert, Charlotte Rampling, still get the chance to play strong, sexy roles even though they're not 20.

Monica Bellucci

#4. Open up the full capacity of the heart and mind.

Steven Redhead

#5. Everything Mengistu has done since 1977 has been to place himself in a position of uncontestable power. Neither Haile Selassie nor any of the previous emperors had this insatiable thirst for power.

Mengistu Haile Mariam

#6. Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve. Well, of course not Adam and Steve. Never Adam and Steve. It's Adam and Steven.

David Rakoff

#7. Every stage of life has its troubles, and no man is content with his own age.

Decimius Magnus Ausonius

#8. The room did not go quiet like something out of an old Western where the sheriff pushes open the creaking door and sashays into the saloon. Maybe that was the problem. Maybe the door needed to creak.

Harlan Coben

#9. I've heard a lot of great success stories from writers - how so many of them struggled to get where they are and how persistence pays off. I learned that some writers are good at doing readings and some are not so good at it.

Kevin Sampsell

#10. I wish there were a class where we could just keep going around the circle. around and around, until we had finally said everything about ourselves.

Miranda July