Altmer Quotes & Sayings

Notice the malice toward an independent man. Look back at your own life. Howard, and at the people you've met. They know. They're afraid. You're a reproach. — Ayn Rand

The beauty that is there is also available for me, too. But I see a deeper beauty that isn't so readily available to others ... I don't see how studying a flower ever detracts from its beauty. It only adds — Richard P. Feynman

Some must cry so that others may be able to laugh the more heartily. Sacrifices are necessary ... — Jean Rhys

It's been exciting to be able to go forward with stuff without 10,000 people saying, It should be like this. — Stephen Hopkins

When I sit at that typewriter, I have to be frightened of what I'm trying to do. I'm frightened by my own belief that I can actually get a story down on paper. — Barry Lopez

I don't think the president had anything to do with Fast and Furious. I'm not sure Eric Holder did, which leads to a conversation about whether he should have known about it. — Trey Gowdy

It would be the death of you to come with me, Sam," said Frodo, "and I could not have borne that."
"Not as certain as being left behind," said Sam.
"But I am going to Mordor."
"I know that well enough, Mr. Frodo. Of course you are. And I'm coming with you. — J.R.R. Tolkien

I don't suppose you would consider peaceful surrender? — Eoin Colfer

When I was a boy, cricket was very, very English. Anyone who spoke English and anyone from a big town could play. And that was it. — Kapil Dev

Marriage is a very strange thing. It's a very public institution, it's meant to tell the world that two people are going to live together, to declare that their children will be legal, that these children can inherit their property. It's meant for social living, to ensure that some rules are observed, so that men and women don't cross the lines drawn from them. At the same time, marriage is an intensely private affair, no outsider will know the state of some one else's marriage. It's a closed room, a locked room ... — Shashi Deshpande

Let people feel the weight of who you really are, and let them fucking deal with it. — Tarryn Fisher

Individual liberty and interdependence are both essential for life in society. — Mahatma Gandhi

Nobody came without their sequins roaring. — Catherynne M Valente

I dream that one day I would be a published writer and people would read my books - if not, I would be living in the mountains in a small hut, near a pond where swans swim, writing a diary for myself. — Srinidhi.R