Tsukihoshi Marina Quotes

#1. Insomnia, then, is not just a state of sleeplessness, a matter of negatives. It involves the active pursuit of sleep. It is a state of longing. - Author: Marina Benjamin

#2. Fear kills instead of protecting. It murders dreams, hopes, relationships and or physical well being. - Author: Marina G. Roussou

#3. The Thames Shouldered its way past Blackfriars Bridge, impatient with the ancient piers, no longer the passive stream that slid past Chelsea Marina, but a rush of ugly water that had scented the open sea and was ready to make a run for it. - Author: J.G. Ballard

#4. I'm just tired. I'm tired all the time. I wake up and I'm tired, I go to sleep and I'm tired. - Author: Marina Keegan

#5. If I ever see you again, you traitorous bastard, I'll take out the other fucking eye! - Author: Pittacus Lore

#6. Growing up with an exterminator as a father was always slightly embarrassing for Anna and her brother, Kevin. "I remember," Tommy begins, "one year when Anna was about eight, and it was 'bring your daughter to work day.' That was a big thing back in the eighties," he chuckles. "Well, I remember Anna came down to breakfast that morning and told me she didn't want to come." Tommy half smiles, but shakes his head slightly and closes his eyes for a second. " 'Dad-dyyy, bugs are nasty. Why can't you be a pilot or a doctor or something cool like that?' I didn't even argue with her, I just let her go to school." Tommy sighs, "I told her I was sorry I didn't have a cooler job. - Author: Marina Keegan

#7. I quite like dark humor. - Author: Marina And The Diamonds

#8. Это просто, как кровь и пот:
Царь - народу, царю - народ.

Это ясно, как тайна двух:
Двое рядом, а третий - Дух.

Царь с небес на престол взведён:
Это чисто, как снег и сон.

Царь опять на престол взойдёт -
Это свято, как кровь и пот.

7 мая 1918, 3-ий день Пасхи
(а оставалось ему жить меньше трёх месяцев!)


It is simple, as blood and sweat:
Tsar and people - in destiny wed.

It is clear, as a secret shared
Between two, an the Spirit- the third.

Heaven summoned the tsar to his throne:
It is spotless, as sleep as snow.

And the tsar shall regain his throne yet:
It is sacred, as blood and sweat.


24th April 1918
3rd day of Easter (and he had - less than three months to live!) - Author: Marina Tsvetaeva

#9. I have tried to understand what crucifixion must feel like. I just know that the pain must be beyond what I have ever experienced. I respect, love, and trust the One who endured all this when He didn't have to. I understand Jesus with my heart, and the rest of the world can think of Him as it will. - Author: Marina Nemat

#10. I was hopelessly looking for the sky in the abyss
But it turned out that it is in your eyes - Author: Marina Matiss

#11. My biggest fear is love and getting hurt in love but still believing. - Author: Marina And The Diamonds

#12. I have many, many editions of the books, and they are all rather different. In the end, the one I used was the most recent French translation. French suits the tales well, and it's a beautiful translation. The Italian one is good as well ... English has fallen short. - Author: Marina Warner

#13. Sometimes just a little bit of light is enough to turn phobias into fluttering butterflies. - Author: Marina Matiss

#14. The tripartite structure - so you remember the third brother, second brother, first brother, or the first dervish, second dervish, and third dervish. This is very like embroidering a cloth, as you have to know where you are with the knots. - Author: Marina Warner

#15. Yell to be heard and no one will listen, speak in whispers and all will strain to hear. - Author: Marina

#16. My favorite means of communication is otherworldly: dreams - meeting in dreams. - Author: Marina Tsvetaeva

#17. I see the carpet reflecting that narratological structure of the storytelling, with Scheherazade as the outside frame story on the outside, with the stories woven on the inside. It's also demonstrative of the infinity of it, with no beginning and no end. The carpet is also a kind of metonym for cinema, this idea that the flat surface carries a terrific depth of imaginative field while remaining totally flat. - Author: Marina Warner

#18. Everybody is different. Some people like to share more. I just wouldn't want to spoil someone's opinion of me by them knowing me as a person instead of an artist. - Author: Marina And The Diamonds

#19. I had a very difficult relationship with my mother. She used to wake me up in the middle of the night if I wasn't sleeping straight and was messing up the sheets. Now when I stay in hotels I sleep so straight they don't even think I've used the bed. - Author: Marina Abramovic

#20. I'm scared of losing this web we're in. This elusive, indefinable, opposite of loneliness. - Author: Marina Keegan

#21. Regan did what any grown woman would do when caught committing a crime. She stepped off the toilet, shoved the flyers behind her back, and slammed the stall door. Then she sat on the toilet lid and pulled her legs up to her chest. - Author: Marina Adair

#22. I really don't like art where you need to know so much theory to understand. If the theory is removed, it doesn't do anything. That means that this work is an illustration of theory, and I don't believe in the power of the work itself. - Author: Marina Abramovic

#23. Time is an illusion. Time only exists when we think about the past and the future. Time doesn't exist in the present here and now. - Author: Marina Abramovic

#24. Let's make something happen to this world. - Author: Marina Keegan

#25. Throw the word "bargain" around a few times, and people will swarm the tiredest old dreck like bees in search of a new hive. Or maybe locusts, ready to strip the place bare. They even buzzed like swarming insects. Voices raised in conversation and laughter, plus the occasional shrieks of a tired child, formed a background roar that still failed to drown out the tired tinkle of Christmas music piped over the top. I'd only been here ten minutes and already I'd heard White Christmas twice. Two times too many in my book. - Author: Marina Finlayson

#26. Aarne-Thompson-Uther index - Author: Marina Warner

#27. What am I here for? To listen to my soul. - Author: Marina Tsvetaeva

#28. An artist has to look at the future, to see what we can do better. - Author: Marina Abramovic

#29. Don't go any farther, Miss Marina," warned Stanley, a half-grin on his face. " 'Tempt ye not the dragon's wrath when his claws are yet to retreat.' Dragon claws ya just can't mess with. - Author: Kenzie Kovacs-Szabo

#30. To live is to be vulnerable. To love is to fear. And the one who is not afraid--that person is calm like a boa constrictor and cannot love. - Author: Marina Dyachenko

#31. Somewhere in the night a
human being is drowning. - Author: Marina Tsvetaeva

#32. Moving to America felt as splitting and eternal as death. - Author: Marina Nemat

#33. My brother laughed at my nostalgia, reminding me that I could still drive the car when I came home. He didn't understand that it wasn't just the driving I'd miss. That it was the tinfoil balls, the New York Times, and the broken speaker; the fingernail marks, the stray cassettes, and the smell of chai. Alone that night and parked in my driveway, I listened to Frank Sinatra with the moon roof slid back. - Author: Marina Keegan