A throne is only a bench covered with velvet. ~French Proverb
#proverbs #french-proverbs #king #reality

Every disease is a physician. ~Irish Proverb
#proverbs #irish-proverbs #medicine #doctors

Offers for me to play dances, society parties, even churches, were now coming in regularly. For most dates I was paid the sum of one dollar per hour, and they always tipped me at the end of the night. ~Mary Lou Williams
#quotes #mary-lou-williams #career

He often wondered whether it were possible to be more possessed by desire for any other woman. The fact was that they functioned well together, and they had a connection as addictive as heroin. ~Steig Larsson
#quotes #steig-larsson #desire #addiction

Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it. ~Gilbert K. Chesterton
#quotes #gilbert-k-chesterton #fiction #mind #reality

It is very hard to concentrate when your stomach is rumbling. ~Shania Twain
#quotes #shania-twain

Bad as I like ye, it's worse without ye. ~Irish Proverb
#proverbs #irish-proverbs #heart

The real difference between telling what happened and telling a story about what happened is that instead of being a victim of our past, we become master of it. ~Donald Davis
#quotes #donald-davis #reality #stories

One person's craziness is another person's reality. ~Tim Burton
#quotes #tim-burton #reality

I just enjoy translating, it's like opening one's mouth and hearing someone else's voice emerge. ~Iris Murdoch
#quotes #iris-murdoch

Birds of a feather flock together. ~English Proverb
#proverbs #english-proverbs

Take heed: you do not find what you do not seek. ~English Proverb
#proverbs #english-proverbs #motivation

The key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of development. The ladder of development hovers overhead, and the poorest of the poor are stuck beneath it. They lack the minimum amount of capital necessary to get a foothold, and therefore need a boost up to the first rung. ~Jeffrey Sachs
#quotes #jeffrey-sachs #money #economy

It is easy to get a thousand prescriptions but hard to get one single remedy. ~Chinese Proverb
#proverbs #chinese-proverbs #medicine

If we do not change our direction we are likely to end up where we are headed. ~Chinese Proverb
#proverbs #chinese-proverbs #future

And it is very sexy as well: somebody says I'm taking you on a surprise date, you don't know where you are going and you can't see and then you put your hand out and there is a tiger. Amazing. ~Emily Watson
#quotes #emily-watson #relationship #surprise

Listen to advice and accept correction, then in the end you will be wise. ~Proverb
#proverbs #advice #listening #wisdom

A man does not seek his luck, luck seeks its man. ~Turkish Proverb
#proverbs #turkish-proverbs #luck

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

I'm not married, and I don't have any kids, so sometimes I envy that end of things when I see a family vacation or people at the beach with their kids or at sporting events with their kids; you wonder, "Is that a part of your life that you want to go into?" ~Kevin Connolly
#quotes #kevin-connolly #life #family

I'm a person that just likes to speak the truth, and I don't understand why in America, it's such a big deal that we won't read the Koran and we won't look at history. ~Pat Robertson
#quotes #pat-robertson #religion #history

There is never any end. There are always new sounds to imagine; new feelings to get at. And always, there is the need to keep purifying these feelings and sounds so that we can really see what we have discovered in its pure state. ~John Coltrane
#quotes #john-coltrane #feelings

No road is long with good company. ~Turkish Proverb
#proverbs #turkish-proverbs

Do not miss your children's childhood. Do not be away 200 nights a year as I was. Do not put strains on your marriage or family. ~Joe Scarborough
#quotes #joe-scarborough #family #children #childhood #marriage

I have an elbow that bends the wrong way, and I'd do things like stand in an elevator and the doors would close, and I'd pretend that my arm had got caught in it, and then I'd scream, "Ow, ow, put it back!" ~Geena Davis
#quotes #geena-davis #humor