Souffles Birago Quotes

#1. One of the best things Dr. G. told me was that I didn't have to judge every new situation I encountered. Living alone, for example. She said I didn't have to say that living alone was good or bad, I could just live alone and not make a judgement on it.

Natalie Taylor

#2. If one of your best friends is making a Star Wars movie, you're not gonna not abuse that privilege. I defy anybody to say otherwise!

Simon Pegg

#3. The friend who knows a lot more than you do will bring difficulties, and grief, and sickness, as medicine, as happiness, as the essence of the moment when you're beaten when you hear Checkmate, and can finally say, I trust you to kill me.

Rumi

#4. I've always lived my life fearlessly, and what I want to do with my life, I do.

Sam Taylor-Wood

#5. [Congress] is not the British Parliament, and I hope it never will become the British Parliament ... Are we going to bring the president in here and have a question period like the prime minister has in Great Britain?

Trent Lott

#6. Before 'Gangnam Style' I was not a good attitude artist.

Psy

#7. Whatever can be taken away from a lasting enjoyment for its own sake cannot possibly be the proper object of desire.

Hannah Arendt

#8. The genius is making a way out of no way.

Henry Louis Gates

#9. I want to spend the rest of my life with you, and I want it to start yesterday.

Vi Keeland

#10. You are wasting time by suffering twice. I mention this only to show how many things the mind cannot will itself to do, even if it wants to.

Elizabeth Strout

#11. The purpose of our lives is to be happy

Dalai Lama XIV

#12. THAT NIGHT, AT ONE OF LONDON'S OPEN-MIC SESSIONS, A YOUNG comedian enjoyed his first success, telling the tale of the naked Yank who mugged him for a tuxedo.

Anthony Chapman

#13. And now too late, we see these things are one:
The art is sacrifice and self-control
And who loves beauty must be stern of soul.

Alice Duer Miller