Shelley Coriell Quotes

You're a princess on roller skates. People like you skate through life on shiny gold blades to full orchestral music with the wind at you back. Everything comes easy to skaters ... Everyone loves you ~ Shelley Coriell

I'm sorry. Two simple words with the power to change worlds. ~ Shelley Coriell

The big bass drum in my head started booming again. Guilt made way too much noise. ~ Shelley Coriell

Never apologize for being you. ~ Shelley Coriell

No, I'm good. I tell Nate
You hear that, Penelope? I. Am. Good ~ Shelley Coriell

Never apologize for being you. That's what my Mom used to say. ~ Shelley Coriell

Silence can hurt worse than mean words. ~ Shelley Coriell

Our faults are apt to assume giant and exaggerated forms to our eyes in youth. ~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The howl of self-interest is loud ... but the heart is black which throbs solely to its note. ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

I put on a good show but I never liked performing tricks in the sex circus and preferred spending time with Jack Daniels rather than the male performers I was paid to fake it with. That's right, none of us hot blondes enjoy making porn. In fact, we hate it. We hate spreading our legs for sexually diseased men. We hate being degraded with their foul smells and sweaty bodies.., ~ Shelley Lubben

It was, perhaps, the amiable character of this man that inclined me more to that branch of natural philosophy which he professed, than an intrinsic love for the science itself. ~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Familiar acts are beautiful through love. ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

On thinking about Hell, I gather
My brother Shelley found it was a place
Much like the city of London. I
Who live in Los Angeles and not in London
Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be
Still more like Los Angeles. ~ Bertolt Brecht

Romanticism valued individual voices, including those of women and "common people." They tended to idealize the pastoral lives of farmers, shepherds, milkmaids, and other rustic people, figures who seemed to them to belong to a simpler, more wholesome, less cynical time when humankind lived in harmony with nature. ~ Mary Shelley

Do not despair. To be friendless is indeed to be unfortunate, but the hearts of men, when unprejudiced by any obvious self-interest, are full of brotherly love and charity. ~ Mary Shelley

All things exist as they are perceived: at least in relation to the percipient. 'The mind is its own place, and of itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.' But poetry defeats the curse which binds us to be subjected to the accident of surrounding impressions. And whether it spreads its own figured curtain or withdraws life's dark veil from before the scene of things, it equally creates for us a being within our being. ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

If, instead of this remark, my father had taken the pains to explain to me that the principles of Agrippa had been entirely exploded and that a modern system of science had been introduced which possessed much greater powers than the ancient, because the powers of the latter were chimerical, while those of the former were real and practical, under such circumstances I should certainly have thrown Agrippa aside and have contented my imagination, warmed as it was, by returning with greater ardour to my former studies. It is even possible that the train of my ideas would never have received the fatal impulse that led to my ruin. ~ Mary Shelley

In my joy I thrust my hand into the live embers, but quickly drew it out with a cry of pain. How strange, I thought that the same cause should produce such opposite effects. ~ Mary Shelley

Think of your passions as you do food, water, shelter ... a necessity. If someone told you to give them up, would you listen? ~ Shelley K. Wall

Ennui, the demon, waited at the threshold of his noiseless refuge, and drove away the stirring hopes and enlivening expectations, which form the better part of life. ~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Anguish and despair had penetrated into the core of my heart; I bore a hell within me, which nothing could extinguish. ~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain. ~ Mary Shelley

The advocates of literal interpretation have been the most efficacious enemies of those doctrines whose nature they profess to venerate. ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

This is the supreme anguish of the soul; it realizes itself as itself, as thing separate from that which is not itself, from God. In this spasm there are two ways: if fear and pride are left in the soul, it shuts itself up, like a warlock in a tower, gnashing its teeth with agony. "I am I," it cried, "I will not lose myself," and in that state damned, it is slowly torn by the claws of circumstance disintegrated bitterly, for all its struggles, throughout ages and ages, its rags to be cast piecemeal upon the dungheap without the city. But the soul that has understood the blessedness of that resignation which grasps the universe and devours it, which is without hope or fear, without faith or doubt, without hate or love, dissolves itself ineffable into the abounding bliss of God. It cries with Shelley, as the "chains of lead about its flight of fire" drop molten from its limbs: "I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire," and in that last outbreaking is made one with the primal and final breath, the Holy Spirit of God.
Such must be the climax of any retirement to the Desert on the part of any aspirant of the Mysteries who has the spark of that fire in him. ~ Aleister Crowley

Do I not deserve to accomplish some great purpose. My life might have passed in ease and luxury; but I preferred glory to every enticement that wealth placed in my path. ~ Mary Shelley

As I read, however, I applied much personally to my own feelings and condition. I found myself similar, yet at the same time strangely unlike to the beings concerning whom I read, and to whose conversation I was a listener. I sympathized with, and partly understood them, but I was unformed in mind, I was dependent on none, and related to none ... and there was none to lament my annihilation ... what did this mean? Who was I? What was I? Whence did I come? What was my destination? These questions continually recurred, but I was unable to solve them. ~ Mary Shelley

I felt emotions of gentleness and pleasure, that had long appeared dead, revive within me. Half surprised by the novelty of these sensations, I allowed myself to be borne away by them, and forgetting my solitude and deformity, dared to be happy. ~ Mary Shelley

And I call on you, spirits of the dead, and on you, wandering ministers of vengeance, to aid and conduct me in my work. Let ~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

A sensitive plant in a garden grew,
And the young winds fed it with silver dew,
And it opened its fan
like leaves to the light,
and closed them beneath the kisses of night. ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

You are in the wrong," replied the fiend; "and, instead of threatening, I am content to reason with you. I am malicious because I am miserable; am I not shunned and hated by all mankind? You, my creator, would tear me to pieces and triumph; remember that, and tell me why I should pity man more than he pities me? Would you not call it murder if you could Precipitate me into one of those ice-rifts, and destroy my frame, the work of your own hands. Shall I respect man, when he contemns me? Let him live with me in the interchange of kindness, and instead of injury, I would bestow every benefit upon him with tears of gratitude at his acceptance. But that cannot be; the human senses are insurmountable barriers to our union. Yet mine shall not be the submission of abject slavery. I will revenge my injuries: if I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear; and chiefly towards you my arch-enemy, because my creator, do I swear inextinguishable hatred. Have a care: I will work at your destruction, nor finish until I desolate your heart , so that you curse the hour of your birth. ~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Not only is privatizing Social Security not the solution to Social Security, it would exacerbate the problem. ~ Shelley Berkley

Many people tried comforting us with words. But there are no consoling words! I really just wanted people to be quiet. I appreciated those who cried with me, hugged me, and offered a brief prayer, but words were unnecessary. ~ Shelley Ramsey

The sight of the awful and majestic in nature had indeed always the effect of solemnising my mind and causing me to forget the passing cares of life. ~ Mary Shelley

Even the eternal skies weep, I thought; is there any shame then, that mortal man should spend himself in tears? ~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

It seemed as if the longer she lived, the more was taken from her. Not gradually, as old age fell into the inevitable, but lobbed off in great chunks, the healthy branches sacrificed along with the frail. ~ Shelley Noble

Humility is a wonderful character trait. It ensures your head and heart go through the door before your ass does. ~ Shelley K. Wall

I have sent books and music there, and all / Those instruments with which high spirits call / The future from its cradle, and the past / Out of its grave, and make the present last / In thoughts and joys which sleep, but cannot die, / Folded within their own eternity. ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

Men love a prop so well, that they will lean on a pointed poisoned spear; and such was he, the impostor, who, with fear of hell for his scourge, most ravenous wolf, played the driver to a credulous flock. ~ Mary Shelley

Romans 8: 28: And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. ~ Shelley Lubben

I was seized by remorse and the sense of guilt, which hurried me away to a hell of intense tortures as no language can describe ~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The world doesn't end just because one thing goes wrong. ~ Shelley Duvall

I replaced someone on 'Days of our Lives' once, and the fans hated me. She was a redhead, I was a brunette: they went nuts. Even at fan events, they were rude to me. ~ Shelley Hennig

But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit, what I shall soon cease to be
a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others, and abhorrent to myself. ~ Mary Shelley

O heart, and mind, and thoughts! what thing do you Hope to inherit in the grave below? ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

Firm; but my hopes fluctuate, and my spirits are often ~ Mary Shelley

The most memorable performance was my appearance in concert in Carnegie Hall. The first standup to do so. ~ Shelley Berman

Poets, not otherwise than philosophers, painters, sculptors, and musicians, are, in one sense, the creators, and, in another, the creations, of their age. ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

It may ... be judged indecent in me to come forward on this occasion; but when I see a fellow-creature about to perish through the cowardice of her pretended friends, I wish to be allowed to speak, that I may say what I know of her character. ~ Mary Shelley

Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it. ~ Mary Shelley

I consider poetry very subordinate to moral and political science. ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

Who shall conceive the horrors of my secret toil as I dabbled among the unhallowed damps of the grave or tortured the living animal to animate the lifeless clay? ~ Mary Shelley

I love tranquil solitude
And such society
As is quiet, wise, and good. ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

Yes," she thought, "nature is the refuge and home for women: they have no public career - no aim nor end beyond their domestic circle; but they can extend that, and make all the creations of nature their own, to foster and do good to. ~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass,
Stains the white radiance of Eternity ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley