Auryn Amulet Quotes & Sayings

Because of the way the business is structured, I have sometimes turned down scripts that I might otherwise have accepted had I known who was directing them. — Jack Nicholson

Our problem is civil obedience — Matt Damon

The dead should not linger. — Sarwat Chadda

Love," he said, "has the longest arms. — Megan McCafferty

What makes you think human beings are sentient and aware? There's no evidence for it. Human beings never think for themselves, they find it too uncomfortable. For the most part, members of our species simply repeat what they are told-and become upset if they are exposed to any different view. The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is religious warfare. Other animals fight for territory or food; but, uniquely in the animal kingdom, human beings fight for their 'beliefs.' The reason is that beliefs guide behavior which has evolutionary importance among human beings. But at a time when our behavior may well lead us to extinction, I see no reason to assume we have any awareness at all. We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory delusion. Next question. — Michael Crichton

The thing that matters is not what they show me but what they hide from me and, above all, what they do not suspect is in them. — Robert Bresson

No element gets people telling crazy stories like mercury does. People have told me tales about pharmacists waxing floors with mercury, mothers rubbing it into babies' skin to kill germs, and 10-year-olds coating dimes in it to make them shine, then blithely carrying them around in their pockets. — Sam Kean

The genuine coherence of our ideas does not come from the reasoning that ties them together, but from the spiritual impulse that gives rise to them. — Nicolas Gomez Davila

One should not chug an entire glass of wine at an elegant dinner party. I start hacking and coughing, having practically water-boarded myself out of sheer humiliation. — Lisa Daily

Unless you call attention to your presence who will know you're there? Even a country has to weave and wave a flag as proof of its existence. — Rod McKuen

I don't think people realizemilie-autumn-devils-carnivale that, once you turn your director's cut in, it's no longer yours. — Darren Lynn Bousman

It was because of my great interest in the West, and my belief that its development would be assisted by the interest I could awaken in others, that I decided to bring the West to the East through the medium of the Wild West Show. — Buffalo Bill

Harry witnessed Professor McGonagall walking right past Peeves who was determinedly loosening a crystal chandelier and could have sworn he heard her tell the poltergeist out of the corner of her mouth, 'It unscrews the other way. — J.K. Rowling

The current age is but a brief moment in the greater scope of existence. — Laurelin Paige