"Depression cannot be overcome by listing a series of good things in one's life, any more than a broken foot can be healed by thinking about all the other bones you have that aren't broken."

-- Mallory Ortberg

#Thinking Quotes #Feet Quotes #Broken Quotes

“Improvisation has been with me since I was a kid, and, taking a selfish pleasure from that, I just thought, "What the hell. It might as well be something other people enjoy."”

Source : Source: www.believermag.com
“If there were a god of New York, it would be the Greek's Hermes, the Roman's Mercury. He embodies New York qualities: the quick exchange, the fastness of language and style, craftiness, the mixing of people and crossing of borders, imagination.”
“Dogs remember every favor you ever do for them and store those events in a memory bank titled Why My Human Is A God.”
“Being on a sitcom stops me from getting Alzheimer's”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I was very sensitive. I liked everything that touched fantasy and beauty. I dreamed of being a ballerina, but Mother said I was too big, too long.”
“O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!”
“I'm not saying that it's wrong to make huge Hollywood films but it's just a different kind of feeling, a different sort of pleasure.”
“To know the truth of history is to realize its ultimate myth and its inevitable ambiguity.”

Source : Roy Prentice Basler (1973). “A Touchstone for Greatness: Essays, Addresses, and Occasional Pieces about Abraham Lincoln”, Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press

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