Alex Costa Quotes & Sayings

The actors come in and they make characters their own and so Patrick and I have never been the kind to think that our script is the bible. We want to make sure that the story is told, that you stick to the story but if you have to make changes to the character then that's fine. A lot of times there are some funny one-liners, funny things that happen that are out of the ordinary. I like it. — Todd Farmer

The trouble with real life is, there's no reset button. — Donald E. Westlake

He'd always had a quickening of the heart when he crossed into Arizona and beheld the cactus country. This was as the desert should be, this was the desert of the picture books, with the land unrolled to the farthest distant horizon hills, with saguaro standing sentinel in their strange chessboard pattern, towering supinely above the fans of ocotillo and brushy mesquite. — Dorothy B. Hughes

For someone in an alternative job, an alternative lifestyle, it's very hard to explain what I do. So I sometimes try and dumb it down as much as possible, so I'm changing what I do every time! So sometimes I'm in an Uber, and they ask, 'So what do you do?' and I say, 'I'm a comedian,' or, 'I'm a graphic designer.' — Connor Franta

My Best Friend and I have spent plenty of time together, despite me being in my First Ever Relationship. This is because friends should always come first. — Holly Smale

The entire point of life was the ability to make one's own choices. Foreknowledge of anything - especially the circular kind, such as Kashkari's presence at Eton because he'd dreamed of it - was terribly limiting and ran counter to the concept of free will. — Sherry Thomas

Speech is but the incorporation of thought. — Joseph Joubert

Great historians can make the discovery of the real story more exciting than the romantic myth. Stacy Schiff, a great historian as well as a wonderful writer, peels away the layers to reveal the true Cleopatraa much more interesting woman than the Hollywood version and, as it turns out, a formidable queen after all. — Evan Thomas

The only countervailing force against organized money at the top, is organized people at the bottom. — Cornel West

The first thing you have to do if you want to raise nice kids, is you have to talk to them like they are people instead of talking to them like they're property. — Frank Zappa

Day by day, hour by hour, minute by minute, God wants us to talk to Him. But are we too busy in our daily lives to speak some words to Him? God reaches out and speaks to us in many various ways. But are we hearing them? — Kcat Yarza

Technique is nothing more than failed style. — John Waters

All things are divine. And yet, we pick and choose among them what's appropriate. — Frederick Lenz

Don't regret your despondency in the shadows of evil, for the good light never did anything to erase your misery. — Michael Bassey Johnson

No dark sarcasm, in the classroom. — Roger Waters