ArkAngel’s Submitted Quotes

We are surrounded by story.

Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.

I think people—they’re already kind of merged with their phone and their laptop and their applications and everything.

London manages to be Los Angeles, Washington and New York wrapped into one. Imagine if one American city were home to Hollywood, the White House, Madison Avenue, Wall Street and Broadway. London is sort of that.

Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.

It’s in the reach of my arms,

The span of my hips,

The stride of my step,

The curl of my lips.

I’m a woman

Phenomenally.

Phen omenal woman,

That’s me.

Lowering costs comes at a cost – in many instances the relationship with existing customers becomes very transactional. There is no ongoing relationship, it is reactional and consumers become hyper-price sensitive, lacking loyalty and repeat business – you have to keep winning them back. When you have technology replacing humanity, it is best deployed when it complements, not replaces people.

Anywhere else in the world when people have a cough, they go to the doctor. In Tel Aviv, they make straight for my concerts.

Figure out who you are and then do it on purpose.

Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect.

If you feel safe in the area you’re working in, you’re not working in the right area. Always go a little further into the water than you feel you’re capable of being in. Go a little bit out of your depth. And when you don’t feel that your feet are quite touching the bottom, you’re just about in the right place to do something exciting.

Life would be tragic, if it weren't funny.

As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

A house is not a home until it has a dog.

[Writing is] like driving a car at night: you never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

In the middle of winter I, at last, discovered that there was in me an invincible summer.

Written words can also sing.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us

What now of the Trojan War if it had been passed over by the artist's touch? Dust. A forgotten expedition prompted by Greek merchants looking for new markets. A minor redistribution of broken pots.

Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.