Acting Quote by Gregory Maguire

By trying to control everything we become very neurotic, more and more desperate. It's a huge tragic thing.

— Charlotte Rampling

We are not converted only once in our lives but many times and this endless series of conversions and inner revolutions leads to our…

— Thomas Merton

We happen upon ourselves when nothing much happens to us, and we are transformed in the process.

— Anthony Lane

We're live in a world that has, in many ways, become desensitized and unable to empathize with other cultures and species. The dangerous part…

— Andy Serkis

Except in extreme cases of biochemical imbalance, giving over your brain to chemical tinkering is the ultimate act of nihilism. It amounts to a…

— Norah Vincent

Repression is an evolutionary adaptation permitting us to function under the burden of our expanded consciousness. For what we are conscious of could drive…

— Camille Paglia

I don't think I have the manipulation gene in me.

— Shefali Zariwala

Do we make ourselves into what we become or is it built into our genes, into the fate spun for us by whatever shapes…

— Joseph Bruchac

Possibilities are like cancer. The more I think about them, the more they multiply, and there's no way to stop them. I'm out of…

— Haruki Murakami

Human beings are ultimately nothing but carriers-passageways- for genes. They ride us into the ground like racehorses from generation to generation. Genes don't think…

— Haruki Murakami

Realizing the ways in which we humans may have been inadvertently changing our genes for millennia provides a way for us to begin to…

— Nicholas A. Christakis

Our lifestyle is evolutionarily unstable--and is therefore in the process of eliminating itself in the perfectly ordinary way.

— Daniel Quinn