"I take it that a successful therapy is an oxymoron."

-- Harold Bloom

#Successful Quotes #Oxymoron Quotes #Therapy Quotes

“I believe that there is a silver lining in everything, and once you begin to see it, you'll need sunglasses to combat the glare.”

Source : Sophia Amoruso (2014). “#GIRLBOSS”, p.100, Penguin
“I'm not one of those actors that goes to watch the playback, after every take. I really don't like it, and I don't want to see it.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“An artist's early work is inevitably made up of a mixture of tendencies and interests, some of which are compatible and some of which are in conflict”

Source : Piet Mondrian, Bridget Riley, Haags Gemeentemuseum (1997). “Mondrian: nature to abstraction : from the Gemeentemuseum, the Hague”, Tate Gallery Pubn
“The land wants you here. I want you here," you called. "Don't you care about that at all?”

Source : Lucy Christopher (2012). “Stolen”, p.127, Chicken House
“Failing sucks. But it's better than the alternative." "Which is?" "Not even trying." Now he did look at me, straight on. "Life's short, you know?”
“I never told a joke in my life.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Men there have been who have done the essayist's part so well as to have earned an immortality in the doing; but we have had not many of them, and they make but a poor figure on our shelves. It is a pity that things should be thus with us, for a good essayist is the pleasantest companion imaginable.”
“The people who know nothing about music are the ones always talking about it.”

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