Amy Ephron quotes

“Keep a cool surface. Calm. Detached. As inside a part of you has been shattered.”
-- Amy Ephron

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“Meditation is like a gym in which you develop the powerful mental muscles of calm and insight.”

“Joe E. Lewis said, 'Money doesn't buy happiness but it calms the nerves.' And that is how I feel about a film being well-received.”

“The English have an extraordinary ability for flying into a great calm.”

Source : Address in Reply to His Majesty's Most Gracious Speech, hansard.millbanksystems.com. November 01, 1950.

“I'm full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind of complications. I like everything around me to be clear as crystal and completely calm.”

“Very quickly after meeting Dustin, the whole image I had of him was shattered.”

“There is always more surface to a shattered object than a whole.”

Source : Djuna Barnes, Rebecca Loncraine (2003). “The Book of Repulsive Women and Other Poems”, p.11, Psychology Press

“When life knocks us down, God CAN put us back together again. He can meet us in our brokenness and restore us to something even more glorious than we were before we were shattered.”

“When illusions are shattered by truth, talent is set free.”

Source : Lian Hearn (2005). “Across the Nightingale Floor: Journey to Inuyama. episode 2”, Puffin

“Awash in a flood of hostility and despair, they battled and railed and shattered their bodies on one another, unable to find one strand, one sobering swallow of solace.”

“Nothing stands for content-free corporate bullshit quite like PowerPoint. And that's just scratching the surface...”

Source : Charles Stross (2009). “The Jennifer Morgue”, p.38, Penguin