Ben Treasure Planet Quotes & Sayings

First I put on what I thought of as my 'artistic' outfit, a green smock dress with huge amber beads stitched into it. I imagined the kind of people who went to concerts might be quite arty and flamboyant. Will and Nathan both stared at me as I entered the living room.

'No,' said Will, flatly.

'That looks like something my mum would wear,' said Nathan.

'You never told me your mum was Nana Mouskouri,' Will said. — Jojo Moyes

My point is that death is more tragic than life, than any life, because every life has hope of some kind. — Shalom Auslander

Some pasts exist as a fog that rolls in and out of the present, formed not by air that condenses into mist but memories that condense into tiny doors that open to forgotten moments. Maybe you glance at a stranger on a crowded street who reminds you of a childhood friend or hear a song that was popular the first summer you fell in love, and in the space of that single beat of time you are flung backward to a who or when long past. And yet it is only for that one beat. Those tiny doors never remain open for long for most of us. They ensure our former times are kept as relics, and the dust upon them is wiped clean only occasionally — Billy Coffey

Don't be ashamed of your own ideas. Most musicians get applauded for sounding like someone else. — Brian Eno

As much as he liked the idea of having best friends with whom he could share anything. it was like all he knew how to be was alone, apart. — Madeleine Roux

I believe no-one can insult you without your permission. Shilpa Shetty has paid the price for trying to desperately seek the approval of the West. It is pathetic how we can go on bended knees and lick the boots of Westerners in an effort to be part of their world. — Mahesh Bhatt

If you are an artist and you are honest, you are never good enough. — Jenny Holzer

We are all connected at a deep, chemical level. We are all connected to the universe, and the universe is inside us. — Wendy Mass

The door to the soul is unlocked; you do not need to please the doorkeeper, the door in front of you is yours, intended for you, and the doorkeeper obeys when spoken to. — Robert Bly

Never make a big decision without sleeping on it. — Martha Stewart

There's an imperative to make sure you distinguish fiction from the fact, because if the fact is doing the work, why did you do fiction? And once you raise the question of why - why do fiction? - then you have to answer it in your text as a kind of enactment of the answer. — Fred D'Aguiar