Altrudas Knoxville Quotes & Sayings

Although I write screenplays, I don't think I'm a very good writer. — George Lucas

Oh, diplomacy," said M.D., in his element, "it mops up war's spillages; legitimizes its outcomes; gives the strong state the means to impose its will on a weaker one, while saving its fleets and battalions for weightier opponents. — David Mitchell

Don't say you love somebody and then change your mind ... Love isn't like picking what movie you want to watch. — Natalie

Perhaps the old lady had kidnapped Michela, had found her in the park and taken her away, because she had a violent desire for a little girl but couldn't have children. Her womb was defective or else she was unwilling to make a bit of room in it.
Just like me, thought Alice. — Paolo Giordano

The afterlife is whatever a soul wishes or believes it to be. — Aimee Carter

The Gullikson twins here. An interesting pair, both from Wisconsin. — Dan Maskell

An eye for an eye won't work because all it does is double the number of eyeless people. — Robert Farrar Capon

Three things know a secret-
First; the lady in a dream,
The dog that barks no warning,
And a maid that does not scream. — Mercedes Lackey

All of the designers I have met up to this point have been very nice, although upon being introduced to Karl Lagerfeld, he looks me up and down and dismisses me with the not super-kind, "What can you write that hasn't been written already?"
He's absolutely right, I have no idea. I can but try. The only thing I can come up with right now is that Lagerfeld's powdered white ponytail has dusted the shoulders of his suit with what looks like dandruff but isn't ... seated on a tiny velvet chair, with his large doughy rump dominating the miniature piece of furniture like a loose, flabby, ass-flavored muffin over-risen from its pan, he resembles a Daumier caricature of some corpulent, overfed, inhumane oligarch drawn sitting on a commode, stuffing his greedy throat with the corpses of dead children, while from his other end he shits out huge, malodorous piles of tainted money. How's that for new and groundbreaking, Mr. L.?
— David Rakoff

I wish you'd help me look into a more interesting problem - namely, my sanity. — Kurt Vonnegut

The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology. — Irving Babbitt

I'd never seen him before, but he looked a lot like my next mistake. — Jamie McGuire