Anne Rice Violin Quotes & Sayings

I loathe the happiness of all these people who don't know they're unhappy. — Pessoa, Fernando

I don't need to sleep to play. I'm crazy anyway. Being crazier still could only help. — Anne Rice

Was this what he believed, what he had always believed when I talked on and on about goodness? Was he making the violin say it? Was he deliberately creating those long, pure liquid notes to say that beauty meant nothing because it came from the dispair inside him, and it had nothing to do with the desair finally, because the despair wasn't beautiful, and a beauty then was a horrid irony? — Anne Rice

I don't have a hands-on fondness for animals. I did not grow up bonded to any particular nonhuman animal. I like them and I pet them and I'm kind to them, but there's no special bond between me and other animals — Wayne Pacelle

Wanting to be a screenwriter is like wanting to be a co-pilot. — Marshall Brickman

Gracious Lord, oh bomb the Germans. Spare their women for Thy Sake, And if that is not too easy, We will pardon Thy Mistake. But, gracious Lord, whate'er shall be, Don't let anyone bomb me. — John Betjeman

Life is hard, even more so for those who lack a sense of humor. — A.J. Garces

And his eyes frighten me, too. They're the eyes of an old man, an old man who's seen so much in life that he no longer cares to go on living. They're not even desperate ... just quiet and expectant, and very, very lonely, as if he were quite alone of his own free choice. — Anne Holm

In the natural sciences, and particularly in chemistry, generalities must come after the detailed knowledge of each fact and not before it. — Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac

Such is life. We grow up. Planets like Tiny get new moons. Moons like me get new planets. — John Green

It has always been my belief that children inherit the suppressed tendencies of their parents. A clergyman's son frequently shows abnormal tastes for the pleasures that his father denied himself ... — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Before product/market fit, your only job that matters is to build a great product. — Sam Altman

It was strange and amusing ... and, honestly, a bit embarrassing ... to realize how much being near Bella had softened me. It seemed like no one was afraid of me any more. If Emmett found out about this, he would be laughing for the next century. — Stephenie Meyer

He's never going to love me. Men like that don't love women like me. They screw women like me. They don't marry women like me and make me a part of their perfect prissy lives. — Tiffany Reisz

It was there that, through a mutual friend, I met John Waters - proving what I've always said: you meet the best people on field trips. — Mink Stole