"Liberating oneself from the addiction of consumerism and careerism promotes inner peace."

-- David Shi

#Simple Quotes #Addiction Quotes #Inner Peace Quotes

“Successful women are not liked. I think the biggest danger for women in science is colleagues who are not as good as you are.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“There's nothing like watching a live performance of, frankly, anything. You have to make sure that people believe everything is improvised. I could not stress enough how little we [actors] prepare and what small amount of time we put in before these shows.”

Source : Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com
“I went to America to get away from constantly being cast in costume dramas, playing posh people.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The most successful people are mavericks who aren't afraid to ask why, especially when everyone thinks it's obvious.”
“If you want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you. Where you just put down what you think about life, what you think about things, what you think is fair and what you think is unfair.”
“Comedy born of bewilderment is the only comedy that should be in magic.”
“I see that you believe in love such as the poets and romancers have represented... The poets represent love as the sculptors design beauty, as the musicians create melody; that is to say, endowed with an exquisite nervous organization, they gather up with discerning ardor the purest elements of life, the most beautiful lines of matter, and the most harmonious voices of nature.... To try to find in real life such love as this, eternal and absolute, is the same thing as to seek on the public squares such a woman as Venus or to expect nightingales to sing the symphonies of Beethoven.”

Source : Alfred de Musset (2012). “The Confession of a Child of the Century”, p.46, tredition
“I shall lie folded like a saint, Lapped in a scented linen sheet, On a bedstead striped with bright-blue paint, Narrow and cold and neat.”

Source : Elinor Wylie, Evelyn Helmick Hively (2005). “Selected Works of Elinor Wylie”, p.37, Kent State University Press

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