Personification famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Tennis is a hard sport. There is a lot of competition all year and you play alone.

  • I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.

  • If you have a clear mind . . . you won't have to search for direction. Direction will come to you.

  • Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half. Advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.

  • I've always thought if you watch the performance and you don't know about the person, then you only see the performance.

  • I had a really normal childhood except I acted. It was like, my brother played soccer, and I was on television sometimes.

  • Life on earth is more like a verb. It repairs, maintains, re-creates, and outdoes itself.

  • For me, the first fact of human existence is the human body. But if you embrace the reality of the human body, you embrace mortality, and that is a very difficult thing for anything to do because the self-conscious mind cannot imagine non-existence. It's impossible to do.

  • Greater inequality in Europe has made people less happy.

  • ...we should all fortify ourselves against the dark hours of depression by cultivating a deep distrust of the certainties of despair. Despair is relentless in the certainties of its pessimism. But we have seen again and again, from our own experience and others', that absolute statements of hopelessness that we make in the dark are notoriously unreliable. Our dark certainties are not sureties.