Sils Quotes

#1. I was Baptist and had always prayed, in a damp squint, for things not to happen. Sils was a Catholic, and so she prayed for things to happen, for things to come true. She prayed for love here and now. I prayed for no guns.

Lorrie Moore

#2. Hotel Waldhaus
We had no luck with the weather and the guests at our table were repellent in every respect. They even ruined Nietzsche for us. Even after they had had a fatal car accident and had been laid out in the church in Sils, we still hated them.

Thomas Bernhard

#3. I think my work is optimistic - as much as it is pathetic and funny and sad and ridiculous, at the end of the day it's about the hope that something will go right, and the constant wishing for a world where things might start to make sense.

Laurel Nakadate

#4. You gotta live in the moment. I don't care what you've done in your life, it has nothing to do with what you're gonna do or what you can do. The past is history, tomorrow is a mystery. But today is a gift-that's why they call it the present.

Mike Ditka

#5. Coretta Scott King was all about her pearl earrings. At one point, I'm wearing pearl earrings the size of golf balls. They're enormous! She was bold-she knew that she was the Jackie Kennedy of her community.

Carmen Ejogo

#6. Give me the luxuries of life and I will gladly do without the necessities.

Frank Lloyd Wright

#7. But the beauty is in the walking
we are betrayed by destinations.

Gwyn Thomas

#8. Complex man that he was, J. Edgar Hoover left nothing to chance. The director shrewdly recognized that building what became known as the world's greatest law enforcement agency would not necessarily keep him in office.

Ronald Kessler

#9. being in love makes people uncertain.

Hiromi Kawakami

#10. He told me about his monster. His sounded just like mine without quite so much mascara. When people shine a little light on their monster, we find out how similar most of our monsters are.

Anne Lamott

#11. I think when you evolve into a headlining act and things get bigger, the intimacy, and some of that energy gets lost a little bit.

Gary LeVox

#12. Pain is not love. Love flowers; love gives without taking; love is serene and calm.

Erica Jong