Quotes About Insight

Even though there were too many feelings, it strikes me that having them all at once, all tangled together, is one of the most interesting things that's ever happened to me.

The knowing of what she wanted rose up the way waters did from streams underground, so quietly you didn't notice until you slipped on the slicked-down stone.

the simples answer was usually true, but simple didn't mean it wasn't also complicated.

Nothing was ever wasted, and nothing was learned in vain.

Libraries offer, for free, the wisdom of the ages--and sages--and, simply put, there's something for everyone inside.

Why does it take fear to move you? Why does it take chaos to make us understand exactly what we need to do?

There is a moment in every relationship when you see the whole thing. The question is when does the moment come? Is it the first time you see the person and instinctively know that things between you are going to work out, or fail? Or is it a moment toward the end, however you get there, when you realize that there is something behind this persons eyes that you were never able to touch, no matter how hard you tried?

The really courageous and bold thing is to make movies about human behaviour.

Two heads are better than a nun

La verdad es una joya de múltiples facetas

A palindrome. Damn, you're right.

Buscar sombra siempre es doloroso. Pero permanecer ciegos es más doloroso aún.

I'll be an easier subject than Seabiscuit, because I can talk." Louis Zamperini to Laura Hillenbrand.

Persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds. -Laura Ingalls Wilder, author (1867-1957)

Every art form will lend you its eye and offer a new way to see.

The thing that amazes me about getting fired is that nobody ever has anything insightful to say about it. They always say the same thing. They always say, 'Everything happens for a reason.' As lame as that sounds, I guess it's better to hear it out loud. Because when you hear it in your own head, it sounds like, 'Anything can happen with a razor.

History's a resource.

She pressed her fingertips against the glass and thanked him for his insight. Supermax

We cannot imagine what we cannot see.

Laura Lippman

Laura Lippman

The closer and more completely you can come to explaining what a work of art means, the less like art it seems.

Buying a book is not about obtaining a possession... but about securing a portal.

She would owe this understanding to her time in New York, and even more to Louise. That's what spending time with the young can do--it's the big payoff for all the pain. The young can exasperate, of course, and frighten, and condescend and insult, and cut you with their still unrounded edges. But they can also drag you, as you protest and scold and try to pull away, right up to the window of the future, and even push you through.