Penchants Quotes

I fear the democratization of plastic surgery, when it's so cheap that everyone - the butcher, the baker, and the candlestick maker - goes under the knife and winds up looking like these tightly pulled, slightly surprised-looking society and celebrity aliens from Planet Botox. . . . When I was young, I could have bottled up my self-loathing and filled a mile of train cars with it. Now that I'm old, I can't think of anyone I'd rather be than me. . . . That's what we need now: surgeons who can slice away the self-consciousness, the fear, the loneliness, and inject a little hope instead. A little love. Or a doctor who implants only high spirits, penchants for practical jokes, or the ability to cha-cha even to a dirge beat. ~ Lorna Landvik

Just because I do what I do doesn't mean I escaped adolescence, all the bumps and bruises that go along with it. ~ Anna Paquin

Only a certain breed of actor should ever even try to work for Orson Welles. I'm glad I'm one of that breed. ~ Mercedes McCambridge

To grow up is to wonder about things; to be grown up is to slowly forget the things you wondered about as a child. ~ Henning Mankell

Let us learn the meaning of economy. Economy is a high human office,
a sacrament when its aim is grand, when it is the prudence of simple tastes, when it is practised for freedom or for love or devotion. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nobody had forgotten anything here. In Berlin, you had to wrestle with the past, you had to build on the ruins, inside them. It wasn't like America where we scraped the earth clean, thinking we could start again every time. ~ Janet Fitch

His head lowers so he's looking in my eyes. I'm completely in love with you. ~ Mila Ferrera

Towards the end of summer 2013, when school ended, I decided to re-download all of my social media channels and make videos again. The next day, I woke up and had 9,000 followers. I did the same thing the next day and woke up with 54,000 followers. ~ Nash Grier