The mind should be as a mirror. ~Zen Proverb
#proverbs #zen-proverbs #mind

If you weren't pretty, it wouldn't matter what you said or didn't say. That's why you're getting this attention. ~Miesha Tate
#quotes #miesha-tate #women #attention

Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven. ~Yiddish Proverb
#proverbs #yiddish-proverbs #equality #destiny

People should decide "are you willing to spend all this money to go to Mars?" I think the average person on the ground would never spend that amount of money; they have to spend it on something that makes sense and this is definitely saving our planet. ~Felix Baumgartner
#quotes #felix-baumgartner #money #mars

They said to the wolf, "For what art thou following those poor little sheep?" He replied, "The dust upon which they tread is good for poor little eyes!" ~ Arabic Proverb
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Even the best needles are not sharp at both ends. ~Chinese Proverb
#proverbs #chinese-proverbs #perfection

You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother. ~Proverb
#proverbs #grandparents

I first arrived in New York in 1979. I was 19 and I was going to University in Houston, Texas, and I decided that I knew what I wanted to do and it was time to go and do it. I literally ran away from college. ~Candace Bushnell
#quotes #candace-bushnell #education #new-york

Nothing like the road to rub all the sand out of your soul. ~John Clellon Holmes
#quotes #john-clellon-holmes #soul

I admit that, my wife is outspoken, but by whom? ~Sam Levenson
#quotes #sam-levenson #wife

If nothing is going well, call your grandmother. ~Italian Proverb
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Art is good for my soul precisely because it reminds me that we have souls in the first place. ~Tilda Swinton
#quotes #tilda-swinton #art #soul

If you represent the Earth's lifetime by a single year, say from January when it was made to December, the 21st-century would be a quarter of a second in June; a tiny fraction of the year. But even in this concertinaed cosmic perspective, our century is very, very special; the first when humans can change themselves and their home planet. ~Martin Rees
#quotes #martin-rees #time #human #change

A quotation at the right moment is like bread in a famine. ~Yiddish Proverb
#proverbs #yiddish-proverbs #quotations

A poor person is not he who has little, but he who needs a lot. ~German Proverb
#proverbs #german-proverbs #poverty #gratitude

The nearer I come to the end of my days, the more I am enabled to see that strange thing, a life, and to see it whole. ~Simone de Beauvoir
#quotes #simone-de-beauvoir #age #life

We are actors, we have to do what we have to do, and you have to be really solid within yourself. ~Linda Gray
#quotes #linda-gray #acting

While aromatherapy is practiced by medical doctors in France, this has not been the case in England and the United States. ~Robert Tisserand
#quotes #robert-tisserand #aromatherapy

In running, it doesn't matter how fast or slow you are relative to anyone else. You set your own pace and you measure your own progress. You can't lose this race because you're not running against anyone else. You're only running against yourself, and as long as you are running, you are winning. ~Amby Burfoot
#quotes #amby-burfoot #sports #marathon

The beautiful are shyer than the ugly, for they move in a world that does not ask for beauty. ~Ned Rorem
#quotes #ned-rorem

It's American Alternative radio stations that bug me. We're considered Alternative, but don't expect us to be played next to Blink 182 and Offspring. We're hardly of that generation. ~Thurston Moore
#quotes #thurston-moore #radio

The music comes first. When Geoff has made something the inspiration comes automatically. His music is very expressive. But still is is a very difficult process. I have to add something to his music, not push it away. It has to be equal, and I find that very difficult. ~Beth Gibbons
#quotes #beth-gibbons #music #inspiration

Those who play with cats must expect to be scratched. ~Proverb
#proverbs #cat

The thing I always say to people is this: "If you avoid failure, you also avoid success." ~Robert Kiyosaki
#quotes #robert-kiyosaki #success #failure

If Barack Obama is elected, I will be moving out of the country. ~Stephen Baldwin
#quotes #stephen-baldwin #barack-obama #elections