To paint a leaf, you have to sacrifice the whole landscape. It might seem like you're limiting yourself at first, but after a while you realize that having a quarter-of-an-inch of something you have a better chance of holding on to a certain feeling ...
Just as it is certain that one leaf is never totally the same as another, so it is certain that the concept "leaf" is formed by arbitrarily discarding these individual differences and by forgetting the distinguishing aspects. This awakens the idea th...
...You don't always get what you expect. I wish someone, sometime when I was growing up, would have told me what expectations would get me. ... Our parents, schools, everyone tells us things will be a certain way when we're adults and if they're not ...
There are certain stars who are not actors. I don't want to be that type.
There is a certain pleasure in weeping
It is certain because it is impossible.
It is certain because it is possible.
The only certain freedom's in departure.
Certain remakes are great. Carpenter's The Thing is better than the original.
There's also a certain rhythm to the way Jews talk that might be funny.
When knowledge is limited - it leads to folly... When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation.
With certain rapturous exceptions, literature is the moral life.
For reasons I don't fully understand, tragic love has a certain appeal.
I was raised Catholic... I fell in love with certain ideals.
It's just certain people that I get the giggles with.
I did have strange ideas during certain periods of time.
A certain darkness is needed to see the stars.
There is a crisis involving reading in certain communities.
All my life I have been faced with the singular opportunity to have NOTHING! I changed that by facing the fact that education, even if unaffordable to me, is something I can have. That is what made me a voracious reader. I learn what I am curious abo...
I can understand that people want to feel special and important and so on, but that self-obsession seems a bit pathetic somehow. Not being able to accept that you're just this collection of cells, intelligent to whatever degree, capable of feeling em...
To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.
