Auctorial Pursuits Quotes & Sayings

Very well, Practical Vitari, if you really can't resist me. You'll have to go on top, though, if you don't mind. — Joe Abercrombie

My work is not, of course, pure art in the sense that Schmidt-Rottluff's is, but it is art nonetheless ... It is all right with me that my work serves a purpose. I want to have an effect on my time, in which human beings are so confused and in need of help. — Kathe Kollwitz

There's nothing like impending death to rouse you from existential boredom. — Roger Ebert

To me, when someone wrongs you, you both share the burden of that wrongdoing - the pain of it weighs on both of you. Forgiveness, then, means choosing to bear the full weight all by yourself. Caleb's betrayal is something we both carry, and since he did it, all I've wanted is for him to take its weight away from me. I am not sure that I'm capable of shouldering it all myself - not sure that I am strong enough, or good enough. — Veronica Roth

Sometimes, months elapse before we've completed the song completely. There's no set rule. Something inside of you says - 'now you can present it!' If one of us feels it's not quite right, lyrically or melodically, we don't present it. — Richard Sherman

If a man spends enough time in a library, he may actually change his mind. I have seen it happen. — Roger Rosenblatt

People at the top are closing ranks so tightly that all possibility of subjective deviation has gone, and difference can be sought only in the more distinguished cut of an evening dress. — Theodor Adorno

You may have fucked a lot of women, James, but I'm your first lover. — R.K. Lilley

You've got your way, the way you are and the way you are with the ones you care about. And that tells me, a man gets in there, you give that to him, the children you give him, that man will be all kinds of lucky. And I've decided we're gonna see if that man is me. — Kristen Ashley

We become human only in the company of other human beings. And this involves both opening our hearts and giving voice to our deepest convictions ... When we shrink from the world, our souls shrink, too. — Paul Rogat Loeb

Well, you need the villain. If you don't have a villain, the good guy can stay home. — Christoph Waltz

Never believed in this shit, but now, I'm thinkin' I fell in love with the promise of you the first time I saw you. — Kristen Ashley

When Americans shoot movies they aim at the entire planet. When the French make movies, they aim at Paris. — Jean-Jacques Annaud

I'm the oldest antique in town. — Norman Rockwell