Agentury Quotes & Sayings

My book might be seen as a search for lower consciousness, an attempt to remove the patina of abstraction or glassy-eyed piety from religious words, by telling stories about them, by grounding them in the world we live in as mortal and often comically fallible human beings. — Kathleen Norris

Madman, thou errest. I say, there is no darkness but ignorance, in which thou art more puzzled than the Egyptians in their fog. — William Shakespeare

Travel breaks down a kind of inner structure we have. Stripped of our props, deprived of our masks, we are completely on the surface of ourselves. — Albert Camus

I'm not a fan of Secretary Rumsfeld. I don't think he listens enough to his uniformed officers. — Trent Lott

When you wake up, instead of checking emails on your phone, or counting your retweets, pick up a pen and scratch a few sentences into a notebook. — Kevin Barry

As you can imagine, those who had fallen this far had been so worn down by their tortures in the seven other hells that they no longer had the strength to cry out. — Ryunosuke Akutagawa

It's ridiculous. My life's been a series of happy accidents. — Lucas Neff

As bad as it might be to destroy a creature made in God's image, it might be very much worse to be creating them after images of one's own. — Leon Kass

If I see a spider in my house, I put it in a cup, and then I take it outside. I save it. What is wrong with me? — Jacqueline Emerson

I'm never a failure, unless I quit trying, and neither are you. — Joyce Meyer

A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality. — Yoko Ono

What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve? — Erica Jong

A picture may say a thousand words, but a word can say what only a word can say. — Vishesh Sharma

A writer need not devour a whole sheep in order to know what mutton tastes like, but he must at least eat a chop. Unless he gets his facts right, his imagination will lead him into all kinds of nonsense, and the facts he is most likely to get right are the facts of his own experience. — W. Somerset Maugham

I think Paul Weitz is a really amazing director, obviously with tons of acclaim and stuff, but I still think he is underrated. And I think he's amazing to work with, so I was super lucky. — Nat Wolff