Aoides Quotes & Sayings

No one forces me, or any other writer, to sell a film option on the books. If you don't want to run the risk that the filmmakers may adapt your work in a way you don't like, then you don't sell the option. You know when you sell it that they will have to make some changes, just because film and TV are different media than books. — Jeff Abbott

I don't care what people think of me now, so why would I care when I'm dead? — Lily Allen

Want of will causes paralysis of every faculty. In spiritual things man is utterly unable because resolvedly unwilling. — Charles Spurgeon

I played a lawyer once, and I had about three or four weeks before we shot, so I was able to go to court and watch lawyers at work. Some were good lawyers and some were bad lawyers, but it was essential. The more time you have to prepare, the better. Always. — Ben Bass

It's amazing how a strip of sticky plastic will make my kids' pain vanish. Lucas will be howling about a stepped-on finger, but as soon as the SpongeBob Band-Aid touches his pinkie, he's all smiles. My sons are so convinced of the magical healing powers of Band-Aids, they think they can solve almost any problem. A couple of years ago, when out Sony TV blew a fuse, Jasper stuck a Band-Aid on the screen hoping to revive it. — A. J. Jacobs

Uncertainty is the normal state. — Tom Stoppard

The president's poking fun at himself over what goes down. I thought it was a good-natured performance. It made him look good. But he certainly doesn't disguise the record on weapons of mass destruction. And you feel like saying to people, Just get over it. — Brit Hume

If left-wing extremism continues to flourish in parts which have natural resources of minerals, the climate for investment would certainly be affected. — Anil Agarwal