Steadier State Quotes

#1. You've got muscles and you use them everywhere else in your body when you want it. Why not your face?

Catherine O'Hara

#2. Humor is ... despair refusing to take itself seriously.

Arland Ussher

#3. To Martha it seemed that she stood outside life. The world went by her, colourless shapes on a flat pale background. Nothing had solidity or warmth. She felt numb, as though she could never be passionately alive again.

Nan Shepherd

#4. The possession of a great many things, even the best of things, tends to blind one to the real value of anything.

Holbrook Jackson

#5. Joy is not a denial of painful circumstances, but a certainty that He is at work while we are in them. EL

Evinda Lepins

#6. I came to Hong Kong when I was five, but we didn't have any relatives in Hong Kong. My mom is a big movie fan, and she watched all kinds of movies, so when I was a kid, basically, we went to watch a movie every day.

Wong Kar-Wai

#7. I've got a twin sister who's an artist and growing up I was always "the loud one." She's not actually quiet at all, but I would rather fill a gap with chatter and she would just let a gap be. So there was no inclination to actually perform.

Sue Tompkins

#8. Imperceptibly the hours glide on, and beguile us as they pass.

Ovid

#9. Through all the darkness, through all the shame of which men are capable, the spirit of man will remain alive on this earth. It may sleep, but it will awaken. It may wear chains, but it will break through.

Ayn Rand

#10. I start to feel like I can't maintain the facade any longer, that I may just start to show through. And I wish I knew what was wrong. Maybe something about how stupid my whole life is.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

#11. Even the ugliest person's cellulite is more attractive than the most beautiful supermodel's lower intestine.' I'd put that on a T-shirt but probably Mark Twain already said it.

Jenny Lawson

#12. It is possible to combine a story line and plot line in the same work. Usually the storylines comes first, serving as a background to the plot line, but not always.

James N. Frey

#13. I've been so blessed to be part of a family that has dedicated its life to public service.

Jeb Bush