Salient Theme Quotes

#1. Italy, like areas of her childhood, is a part of her world she has always kept secret from her husband. These are places she goes to renew her virginity.

Glenn Haybittle

#2. But it is one thing to resolve to die, quite another to actually carry out that resolve in the midst of dying. Something

N.K. Jemisin

#3. It was too sweet a moment to ruin by speaking mere words. Happiness was the bright blue moon, beaming amidst the bright stars of smiles that enveloped their countenances.

Sonali Dabade

#4. What's fascinating about the Australians is they have this quality that they are impervious to majesty. They're not awed.

Tom Hooper

#5. Then there was someone else I met,
whose face and voice I can't forget,
and the memory of her
is like a jail I'm trapped inside,
or maybe she is something I just use
to hold my real life at a distance.

Tony Hoagland

#6. For some reason, my temper was hardwired to my tear ducts. I usually cried when I was angry, a humiliating tendency.

Stephenie Meyer

#7. Texting is apocalyptic on some level. It's a reduction of things.

Nick Cave

#8. Rock'n'roll saved my soul.

Thurston Moore

#9. Our heritage as actors goes back thousands of years, and we have to feel as comfortable in the clothes, and the language of Sophocles as we do in our sneakers.

Stella Adler

#10. I once did something right. I played first-rate basketball. I really did. And after you're first-rate at something, no matter what, it kind of takes the kick out of being second-rate.

John Updike

#11. Every party is the same, too many people, too little food, and you have to wait around. I'm extremely bored with parties.

Marina Abramovic

#12. It is my opinion that human history can make no sense unless evil doings are recognized for what they are, and that they are bearable only if somehow they may be redeemed.

Simon Conway Morris

#13. Murder was a terrible thing. Even if you're not quite right in the head, you can realize that much. Mother must be suffering quite a bit. Perhaps

Robert Bloch

#14. When I was growing up, everybody smoked, including me. When I was 14, I started. We all did it. That was just the way it was. And nowadays there's a stigma attached to it. It's a big shift.

Wayne Dyer