Pulled In Different Directions Quotes

#1. The only interesting answers are those which destroy the questions.

Susan Sontag

#2. Being a mother must be the saddest yet the most hopeful thing in the world, falling into a love that, once started, would never end.

Yiyun Li

#3. If you turn your nose up to people, God will turn down your prayers.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#4. After the success of Buddenbrooks, he married and fathered six children. Yet the surviving diaries tell us of recurrent sexual problems - and of Katia Mann's extremely sympathetic response to them

Philip Kitcher

#5. There is only continual motion. If I rest, if I think inward, I go mad. There is so much, and I am torn in different directions, pulled thin, taut against horizons too distant for me to reach. Swift, ceaseless pace. Will I never rest in sunlight again - slow, languid & golden with peace?

Sylvia Plath

#6. With God thoughts are colors, with us they are pigments-even the most abstract one may be accompanied by physical pain.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#7. The more dangerous the situation I put myself into, the more I rise, the better I become.

Eddie Alvarez

#8. Manipulation, fueled with good intent, can be a blessing. But when used wickedly, it is the beginning of a magician's karmic calamity.

T.F. Hodge

#9. I would hope they would be our fellow artists, rather than trying to emulate or idolize clowns like us.

Maynard James Keenan

#10. ... she smiles in an exhausted but warm sort of way, as though she is a brilliant sun in some other galaxy

Audrey Niffenegger