Apagogical Quotes & Sayings

Love isn't blind. If it has any senses love, like it's second cousin lust, has not only perfect vision but in fact has tunnel vision. Some people are never able to see past what they see. — John Goode

You work many hours. It is the major activity of your life. You can lose a lot of energy or gain a lot of energy from it. Put your full attention into it and do a good job, because it is part of your impeccability. — Frederick Lenz

The Cosby years were a major part of my life, but it is the past; I don't really concentrate on it. — Lisa Bonet

The economy is the start and end of everything. You can't have successful education reform or any other reform if you don't have a strong economy. — David Cameron

The fact is that if the writer's attention is on producing a work of art, a work that is good in itself, he is going to take great pains to control every excess, everything that does not contribute to this central meaning and design. He cannot indulge in sentimentality, in propagandizing, or in pornography and create a work of art, for all these things are excesses. They call attention to themselves and distract from the work as a whole. — Flannery O'Connor

Going into my second film as a director, it's night and day of what it was like going into my first film. It doesn't matter what you know in your head and what you've been taught until you're there and doing it; it's a whole new ball game. — Derek Magyar

Those who seek for something more than happiness in this world must not complain if happiness is not their portion. — James Anthony Froude

Comedies in Hollywood is usually the path of least resistance when it comes to being black in Hollywood and putting movies together. They would rather make us laugh than cry, in some respect. — Ice Cube

in so far as we cherish the tangibles, we must value the intangibles. The intangibles, though as latent as they may seem to be, they are solemnly tangible. — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

If the composition's imperfect, why would so many pianists try to master it?'
'Good question. I have no great explanation for it, but one thing I can say. Works have a certain imperfection to them have an appeal for that very reason. There's something in it that draws you in, more than more fully realized novels. ou discover something about that work that tugs at your heart- or maybe we should say the work discovers you.
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#canbetakenasacommentaryonthisnoveloverall — Haruki Murakami

I spend a lot of time in a sort of free state when I'm writing in the beginning and sketching. — Tony Gilroy

I now have learn'd Love right, and learn'd even so,
As who by being poisoned doth poison know. — Philip Sidney

JUSTICE: Nothing bothers me. I'm unflappable. It's why I'm a good manager. — Bijou Hunter