A lot of preconceived notions that I had about fame and status and money and joy and pain, and all of these things that I thought I knew, I didn’t. Alanis Morissette Read Quote
Me just existing and being myself is making change and making things easier for other young queer kids. I want to be me and express that and break new ground along the way. Kevin Abstract Read Quote
I’ve long been interested in the tale-within-a-tale phenomenon. I’m familiar with many tales which use this framework or the device of many people in one place, telling their stories, or multiple storytellers commenting on each others’ stories with their own. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Read Quote
Clothes if they are not well cut, you can kill nobody. A building poorly built can kill people. It’s a much more difficult work. I would not compare myself with that. Karl Lagerfeld Read Quote
My mother was a cleaner and my father a builder. I watched both of them make big sacrifices for my brother and I to study. This is where I get my work ethic from. This is also the source of my generosity and willingness to help. Javier Zanetti Read Quote
There are some days where I’ll eat 8,000 calories per day, on a day before a 12, 14, 18 hour swim. For a 61-year-old woman, that’s a lot! And I try not to eat too much refined sugar – cookies, desserts, those sorts of things. Diana Nyad Read Quote
When we’re doing the space walks, we’re working very very hard. Every single minute is choreographed. But there’s a few minutes here and there where ground is maybe talking about something, and you have to put your tools down and wait. Just getting a chance to look through your visor and see the planet go by was incredible. Kathleen Rubins Read Quote
