"People's vocabulary has expanded."

-- Michael Snow

#Vocabulary Quotes #People Quotes

“[Alan] Watts did two main things for me. He opened up the connections between what I was doing and the traditional Oriental philosophies. And he pointed me toward the distinction between Self and Mind.”
“My ex-girlfriend owned a parakeetâ€¦oh my god, that f**king thing would never shut up. But the bird was cool.”
“Drink was the most fearsome of deceivers ... for it promised one thing and came through with quite another.”
“I made use of the college library by borrowing books other than scientific books, such as all of the plays by George Bernard Shaw, the writing of Edgar Allan Poe. The college library helped me to develop a broader aspect on life.”
“Anger is a tool for change when it challenges us to become more of an expert on the self and less of an expert on others.”

Source : FaceBook post by Harriet Lerner from Mar 17, 2016
“If the Internet has given us anything, it's some idea of how much psychosis goes undiagnosed.”

Source : Jan Burke (2012). “Disturbance: An Irene Kelly Novel”, p.3, Simon and Schuster
“I really believe that when you're playing a character that everything is contained in the script. If I'm pulling from things from my own life, then I think I'm being disingenuous to the character and the story.”
“I always had long hair. When you lose it, you realise just how important it is to your identity.”

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