29 Quotes

“When my friends began to have babies and I came to comprehend the heroic labor it takes to keep one alive, the constant exhausting tending of a being who can do nothing and demands everything, I realized that my mother had done all of these things for me before I remembered. I was fed; I was washed; I was clothed; I was taught to speak and given a thousand other things, over and over again, hourly, daily, for years. She gave me everything before she gave me nothing.”
― Rebecca Solnit, The Faraway Nearby

“I could spend whole days at Cinecittà. There, I am the greatest director of all time. On the town side, I reshoot the close-ups for Touch of Evil. Down at the beach, I rework the dolly shots for Stagecoach, and offshore I re-create the storm rocking the smugglers of Moonfleet.”
― Jean-Dominique Bauby, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death

“Altădată aveai prea mulți amici și acum nu mai ai deloc. Asta vrea să însemne că nu i-ai avut niciodată"
- 29,99 RON”
― Frédéric Beigbeder

“Pedestrianism, [William Bingley] claims, is the most 'useful' mode of travel, 'if health and strength are not wanting.'

'To a naturalist, it is evidently so; since, by this means, he is enabled to examine the country as he goes along; and when he sees occasion, he can also strike out of the road, amongst the mountains or morasses, in a manner completely independent of all those obstacles that inevitably attend the bringing of carriages or horses.'

Bingley has a specific reason here for valuing the combination of freedom and intimacy with one's surroundings enjoyed by the pedestrian, but his rationale is generalisable to other travellers.”
― Robin Jarvis, Romantic Writing and Pedestrian Travel

“All these 29 year-old women should be married by now. I would marry all of them. Hmm that doesn't sound quite right.”
― Trevor Carss

“Bir ortamda en çok direnç gösteren kişi, kendi iç dünyasına sığınabilmeyi en iyi başaran olabilir.”
― Boris Cyrulnik, Un merveilleux malheur