Soderberg Quotes

#1. There would always be an expletive in a New York sentence. Even from a judge. Soderberg was not fond of bad language, but he knew its value at the right time. A man on a tightrope, a hundred and ten stories in the air, can you possibly fucking believe it?

Colum McCann

#2. Potemkin only deceived his empress;
how much more despicable to deceive oneself.

Hjalmar Soderberg

#3. The ideal is the flower-garden of the mind, and very apt to run to weeds unless carefully tended.

Margaret Oliphant

#4. I believe in the lust of the flesh and the incurable desolation of the soul.

Hjalmar Soderberg

#5. If you do good, your good deeds will multiple.If you do bad, you will face the consequences. Always choose the former; it is more blessed to live a good life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#6. One wants to be loved, in lack thereof admired, in lack thereof feared, in lack thereof loathed and despised. One wants to instill some sort of emotion in people. The soul trembles before emptiness and desires contact at any price.

Hjalmar Soderberg

#7. Many people want to scale back their working hours as they near the end of their careers, but not necessarily to give up work altogether.

Charles Kennedy

#8. We know so little about one another. We embrace a shadow and love a dream.

Hjalmar Soderberg

#9. Truth is like the sun, its value wholly depends upon our being at a correct distance away from it.

Hjalmar Soderberg

#10. Nothing so reduces and drags down a human being as the consciousness of not being loved.

Hjalmar Soderberg

#11. What's gratifying for me and interesting is that people are picking up on exactly what I want them to, which is that this is energizing people, and making them want to make stories.

Jessica Abel

#12. Where were the scientific pamphlets that taught a woman how to listen to herself die?

Gail Carriger

#13. Do not go to the bottom of things, or you will go to the bottom yourself.

Hjalmar Soderberg

#14. When there is a problem, there is not something to do, there is something to know.

Louise L. Hay

#15. A pregnant woman is a frightful object. A new-born child is loathsome. A deathbed rarely makes so horrible an impression as childbirth, that terrible symphony of screams and filth and blood.

Hjalmar Soderberg

#16. So I think that life is sort of like a drumbeat. It has a rhythm and sometimes it's fast and sometimes it's slower, and maybe what's happening is this drumbeat is just accelerating and it's gotten to the point where I can't hear between the beats anymore and it's just a hum.

Steven Soderbergh

#17. What I personally gravitate toward tends to be fantasy, medium dark - not too dark - fairy tales and sci fi. Stop-motion takes something on the page that's really dark and adds a little sweetness to it, a living toys realm.

Henry Selick

#18. He [Will Rogers] was America's most complete human document. One-third humor. One-third humanitarian. One-third heart.

Damon Runyon

#19. A woman wants to be adored but she doesn't want reverence. Thomas

Liane Moriarty

#20. People want to be loved; failing that admired; failing that feared; failing that hated and despised. They want to evoke some sort of sentiment. The soul shudders before oblivion and seeks connection at any price.

Hjalmar Soderberg

#21. Inspiration is a sustainable internal glow which pulls you forward.

Thomas Leonard

#22. As some of the lowest organisms, in which nerves cannot be detected, are capable of perceiving light, it does not seem impossible that certain sensitive elements in their sarcode should become aggregated and developed into nerves, endowed with this special sensibility.

Charles Darwin

#23. Education is more valuable than money, in the long run.

Robert Kiyosaki

#24. We want to be loved; failing that, admired; failing that, feared; failing that, hated and despised. At all costs we want to stir up some sort of feeling in others. Our soul abhors a vacuum. At all costs it longs for contact.

Hjalmar Soderberg

#25. For youth, the moon is a promise of all those tremendous things which await it, for older people a memento that the promise was never kept, a reminder of all that broke and went to pieces ...
And what is moonshine? Secondhand sunshine. Diluted, counterfeit.

Hjalmar Soderberg

#26. The old beliefs, of course, and the rational approach, are everywhere reinforced, and so it does have a great weight. The magical approach has far greater weight, if you use it and allow yourselves to operate in that fashion, for it has the weight of your basic natural orientation.

Jane Roberts

#27. He was strict and hard and had perfectly clear and definite ideas about duty, where the others were concerned. For oneself one can always find circumstances that alter cases

Hjalmar Soderberg

#28. When top-level chess players look at a board, they see words, not letters. Instead of seeing twenty-five pieces, they may see just five or six groups of pieces. That's why it's easy for them to remember where all the pieces are.

Geoff Colvin

#29. There are no choices without personal freedom, Buckeroo. It's not us who are dead inside. These things you find so weak and contemptible in us
these are just the hazards of being free.

David Foster Wallace