Primal Scene Quotes

#1. It is failure that guides evolution; perfection provides no incentive for improvement, and nothing is perfect.

Colson Whitehead

#2. I was on the beach every summer. That was the pleasant part of my childhood because we were right by the sea. We'd take a picnic, and I'd spend hours in the water until I turned blue. You couldn't get me out of there.

Olga Kurylenko

#3. Music is all of a sudden much more colorful.

Pharrell Williams

#4. Incumbency adds a layer of advantage on top of this party dominance. But rather than foster an environment in which members of Congress feel free to buck popular sentiment and wrestle seriously with the problems confronting the country, it reinforces the ideological divide between the parties.

Thomas E. Mann

#5. Writers have to be careful not to confuse personal attention with the attention that's going towards the book.

Andre Dubus III

#6. It's the Black Sea in a midnight gale. - It's the unnatural combat of the four primal elements. - It's a blasted heath. - It's a Hyperborean winter scene. - It's the breaking-up of the icebound stream of Time.

Herman Melville

#7. The half-circle of blinding turquoise ocean is this love's primal scene. That this blue exists makes my life a remarkable one, just to have seen it. To have seen such beautiful things. To find oneself placed in their midst. Choiceless. I returned there yesterday and stood again upon the mountain.

Maggie Nelson

#8. RVM Thoughts for Today
Do you know that you can CHOOSE to be Happy or Unhappy? happiness doesn't just Happen ! It is a Choice you make.

R.v.m.

#9. I advise, however, moderation in this task of setting goals, or else risk becoming tangled up in a Gordian knot of life's many disappointments.

Andrew Levkoff

#10. One should have the courage of one's loneliness.

Ngaio Marsh

#11. If there were an infinite number of universes, did that mean that one of them had to be perfect? And if one of the was paradise, did that me that another one had to be hell?

Josephine Angelini

#12. You do anything long enough to escape the habit of living until the escape becomes the habit.

David Ryan

#13. that it was impossible to get rid of it without

Jo Nesbo

#14. No matter what the Fates may bring upon you, there is one thing you can be sure will never falter. I will always love you with the same fire of my youth until the day I am no more.

C.J. Abedi

#15. I don't champion the idea of being in a Hollywood movie. I never had fun in one of them.

Armand Assante

#16. Until this moment, Senator, I think I never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness ... Let us not assassinate this lad further, senator. You have done enough. Have you no sense of decency?

Joseph N. Welch

#17. When you meet the farmers and go to the farms, you see that they treat their animals like they're family. It makes a big difference.

David Chang